Word: pasteurization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ever since Pasteur made his epochal discovery that inactive virus could give protection against rabies, thousands of bite victims each year have started the course of 14 shots. Many have quit because of severe and painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because they contained material from rabbit brains. Last week researchers in New York City's Department of Health reported that a modified vaccine made by growing the virus in fertilized duck eggs gives quicker protection, is safer and causes few unpleasant reactions...
...least 100 county residents were taking or had recently finished the tedious "Pasteur treatment"*-a series of 14 to 21 painful daily injections. Since Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...
...Still usually so-called because Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine from the ground-up spinal cords of rabbits in which the virus had grown and become weakened. But most vaccine now used in the U.S. is the Semple type (for David Semple, English physician, 1856-1937), in which the virus is killed by heat and chemicals...