Rabies

  • Single Vaccines to Protect Against Rabies and Ebola
    Matthias Schnell, PhD, director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center, and colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University successfully test vaccines in mice that could lead to a more effective public health tool in Africa. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, among other ...More
    August 25, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • University Receives NIH Grant to Study New Rabies Vaccine that Clears Virus From Brain
    Thomas Jefferson University announces it has received a $4.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test a new rabies vaccine with the potential to cure the virus infection, even after it has made its way into a person’s central nervous system (CNS). ...More
    August 8, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Researchers Unlocking the Secrets of Cross-Species Rabies Transmission
    Like most infectious diseases, rabies can attack several species. However, which species are going to be infected and why turns out to be a difficult problem that represents a major gap in our knowledge of how diseases emerge. ...More
    August 5, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Rabies Vaccine May Require Only a Single Shot, Not Six
    A person, usually a child, dies of rabies every 20 minutes. However, only one inoculation may be all it takes for rabies vaccination, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases by researchers at the Jefferson Vaccine Center.A ...More
    September 18, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Microbiologists Find Defense Molecule that Senses Respiratory Viruses
    A cellular molecule that not only can sense two common respiratory viruses but also can direct cells to mount a defense has been identified by microbiologists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.The finding, published online Sunday, Aug. 23, by ...More
    August 24, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Rabies Deaths Could be Eliminated
    Someone in the developing world – particularly in rural Africa - dies from a rabid dog bite every 10 minutes. But global elimination of this horrific disease appears to be possible, according to a team which includes scientists from McMaster University, Britain and ...More
    March 12, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Protocol Used to Treat First Known Survivor of Rabies Without Vaccination
    The protocol used to treat the first known survivor of rabies without prior vaccination was published in the June 16, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It is hoped that this approach can be replicated, tested, and provide a guide for treating this fatal ...More
    June 16, 2005
    Posted in News
  • New Report Describes Details of Four Transplant Recipients Who Contracted Rabies From Donor
    A new report describes details of the clinical, radiological and pathological findings of four patients who received organs or tissue from a single donor, contracted rabies from the transplant and subsequently died, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of ...More
    June 13, 2005
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Create New Vaccine for Wildlife Rabies
    While the raccoon that raids your trash at night may look cute and mischievous, think again. Its claws can be nasty. Even worse, it might carry rabies. Now, scientists at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and at Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. (MTTI) in West ...More
    December 15, 2004
    Posted in News
  • Malaria Vaccine Trial Results Published
    The results of a randomized controlled trial of a malaria vaccine called ME-TRAP are published this month in PLoS Medicine. "This first field efficacy trial was an important milestone in the progression of new recombinant vectored vaccines to deployable products," says ...More
    November 2, 2004
    Posted in News
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