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Cholera rages in many parts of Asia where poverty impedes sanitation and millions drink polluted water. There is still no really effective vaccine for the disease, which causes a debilitating diarrhea and deprives the body of essential fluids. A century ago, doctors tried unsuccessfully to treat cholera by fumigating victims...
>Topical creams or burn dressings containing silver sulfadiazine and sulfa derivatives are being used in addition to the traditional method of sterilization-bathing burns with 0.5% silver nitrate solution. The new dressings cut the rate of infection by pseudomonas bacteria-once the primary cause of burn deaths-in half. In...
Matthew's ordeal began last Oct. 10, when a bat flew into his bedroom and bit the sleeping child on the thumb. Determining from tests that the bat was rabid, doctors began almost immediately to administer vaccine made from rabies virus grown in duck embryos and then killed. For...
Fatal Symptoms. Suspecting an adverse reaction to the vaccine, doctors admitted the boy to St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, where tests strongly suggested that he had contracted the disease. They then began a desperate battle to save the youngster by treating not the infection itself-which responds to...
Though cautious about calling it a complete recovery, doctors are understandably elated by Matthew's progress, which could make him the first person ever to survive a documented case of rabies. But they are uncertain whether to credit the vaccine or his medical management for the apparent recovery. The...