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Rabies
Research from S.F. Zhang and co-researchers provides new data on rabies
April 2nd, 2008
"Rabies is a reemerging and fatal infectious disease in Asia mainly caused by exposure to rabid dogs. Prevention of dog rabies would be the most effective way to stop rabies transmission to humans," scientists in Changchun, People's Republic of China report. "However, vaccinating stray dogs in urban and rural areas using conventional vaccines is always difficult and is not cost-effective for use in most areas including China. Further to previous studies from our Laboratory, we developed a bait containing the recombinant rabies vaccine and performed a non-parenteral trial in dogs. This vaccine was intranasally administrated once to 46 dogs in solution form with 1 x...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-04-02)
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