Word: toxoids
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...double-action vaccine that protects children against diphtheria and whooping cough at the same time was described at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Public Health Association last week. The vaccine, a combination of standard diphtheria toxoid and a new preparation containing the germs of whooping cough, was developed by Dr. Pearl Luella Kendrick of the Michigan State Department of Health...
...Kendrick and a group of Illinois health officials have tried the vac cine on several groups of children, whose ages ranged from six months to five years. None of them had vaccine sickness from combined doses. The diphtheria toxoid, of course, protected the children completely; the newer pertussis vaccine reduced the usual number of cases of whooping cough, moderated the disease in children who were attacked...
...China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
...material is a toxoid. The standard method of preparing scarlet fever antitoxin has been to infect a horse with the disease and let his blood manufacture the antitoxin. Although useful, this antitoxin occasionally causes sharp reactions, is unpleasant...
...National Institute of Health makes its toxoid by treating live scarlet fever bacilli with formalin and heat. After standing two months the germs lose their virulence, form with the antitoxin a bland but adequate protection against scarlet fever...