Word: toxoids
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There is scant excuse for any child anywhere in the U.S. to contract diphtheria, let alone to die of it. Conquest of this disease is one of 20th century medicine's most clear-cut triumphs: it can be prevented by inoculation with diphtheria toxoid in the first few months of life, repeated when the child is about ten. Yet in Detroit last week, 72 diphtheria victims were confined in the city's Herman Kiefer Hospital; so far in 1956, Detroit has had 156 cases with five deaths, most of them in the last two months...
Schick announced the test in 1913 Within ten years, a new and far safer immunizing substance (toxoid) took most of the risk out of preventive measures. Nowadays, throughout most of the U.S. and in many another country, babies get their first protective shot by the time they are a year old. Years after the first shot, the Schick test (two injections, one in each arm) shows whether the immunity has lasted or needs renewing. And it will show at any time whether a preventive shot has "taken...
...intended mainly for children, its usefulness extends to their elders. For adults are more likely than youngsters to have allergic reactions to immunization shots, so it is especially important in their case to give no unnecessary innoculations. Sensitive grown-ups often can be immunized by tiny, repeated doses of toxoid...
Some two dozen College students participated yesterday in an experiment conducted by the School of Public Health to determine the degree of immunization achieved by tetanus toxoid...
...Arlie S. Bock, professor of Hygiene, said yesterday the tests will be run by Johannes Ipsen, Jr., assistant professor of Epidemology in the School of Public Health, and head of the Massachusetts State Laboratories. Ipsen is trying to determine which of four tetanus toxoid serume is best for use by the U.S. Army...