Rabies Vaccine

DNA Vaccine 100 Percent Effective Against Rabies in Monkeys

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 21st, 1998

Scientists at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), part of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), have developed a DNA vaccine against rabies that protected eight of eight vaccinated monkeys from the disease.

It is the first DNA vaccine to show complete protection in non-human primates against a virus that attacks the central nervous system. Their report describing the successful experiment appeared in the August 1998 issue of Nature Medicine ("DNA Immunization Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Rabies Virus," Nature Medicine, 1998;4(8):949-52).

"There's no gray area in this experiment. That's what's so beautiful...

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