Rabies

CDC Confirms Rabies Death in Organ Transplant Recipient

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have confirmed that a patient who recently died of rabies in Maryland contracted the infection through organ transplantation done more than a year ago. The patient was ...More
March 15, 2013
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Genetically Modified Tobacco Plants Produce Antibodies to Treat Rabies

Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the plant might provide a relatively inexpensive cure for the deadly rabies virus. In a new research report appearing in the FASEB Journal, scientists produced a monoclonal antibody in ...More
February 1, 2013
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Slide Show: A Primer on Rabies

In acknowledgement of World Rabies Day, Sept. 28, 2012, we present a primer on rabies infection and strategies for disease prevention. ...More
September 21, 2012
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Study Finds Routine Rabies Exposures in Amazon Communities

Some people living in two Amazon communities in Peru survived being exposed to rabies virus without receiving vaccination, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Peruvian Ministry of Health. While ...More
August 1, 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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