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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  • 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
    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
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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
    Posted in News
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