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Vaccinations Aren't Just for Kids
Posted 16 Sep 2011 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, Sept. 16 – Public health experts often focus immunization awareness efforts toward protecting children, and with good reason: Facing a potentially bewildering schedule of vaccinations for their young ones, parents usually need all the help they can get. But vaccinations aren't just kid stuff. Medical science is creating an increasing number of immunizations targeted at adults, to help them avoid life-threatening diseases in middle-age and opportunistic infections when they're older. "Immunization is a life-long issue that we need to pay a lot of attention to," said Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. Some adult vaccinations are very well-known, like the annual shot that aims to prevent the spread of influenza. "You need an influenza shot every year," Benjamin said. "Part of that is because the virus changes every year, ... Read more
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Rabid Stray Dog Spurs Shots for Shelter Workers: Report
Posted 7 Jan 2011 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Jan. 6 – A newly published case history highlights the importance of rabies vaccinations for pets and animal shelter workers. The report details a situation involving a stray dog found in rural Minnesota and taken to a North Dakota animal shelter in March 2010. When it was later learned that the dog had rabies, public health officials began an investigation using animal shelter records and a public notification to identify people and animals who may have had contact with the rabid dog. As a result, post-exposure rabies vaccine was given to 21 people, including nine animal shelter workers and one volunteer. Because of potential contact with the rabid dog, 36 dogs were euthanized, including some that had been housed with the rabid animal and others that might have been exposed and were not up-to-date on their rabies shots. As of December 2010, there had been no reported cases ... Read more
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One Shot May Someday Replace Six for Rabies
Posted 16 Jul 2010 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 – An experimental rabies vaccine that may require only one injection produced promising results in animals, U.S. researchers report. Currently, people exposed to rabies have to undergo six shots over 28 days – five injections of the rabies vaccine and one injection of rabies immunoglobulin. The new replication-deficient rabies virus vaccine lacks a key gene called the matrix (M) gene, according to a news release from Thomas Jefferson University, where the research was performed. "The M gene is one of the central genes of the rabies virus, and its absence inhibits the virus from completing its life cycle. The virus in the vaccine infects cells and induces an immune response, but the virus is deficient in spreading," James McGettigan, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson Medical College at the university in Philadelphia, said in the news ... Read more
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Texas Girl Recovers From Rabies Without Intensive Care
Posted 25 Feb 2010 by Drugs.com
THURSDAY, Feb. 25 – The seemingly miraculous recovery from rabies of a 17-year-old Texas girl – diagnosed months after a suspected bat bite – is leaving doctors scratching their heads and wondering if such cases might be less rare than is believed. The case "suggests the rare possibility that abortive rabies can occur in humans and might go unrecognized," write a team of researchers reporting in this week's issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention. As noted in the report, rabies – typically transferred to humans via the bites of infected animals such as dogs, raccoons or bats – is largely fatal if left untreated, and only six such patients have been known to survive worldwide. In late February of 2009, the girl in question was brought to a Texas hospital, disoriented and in serious pain. She received ... Read more
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