MEDEX Global Group Cautions: Beware of Rabies When Abroad
Number of Dog Bite Cases Doubled in 2008 Baltimore, MD (Vocus) February 5, 2009 -- MEDEX Global Group reports a 240% increase in dog bite cases handled by its Emergency Response Center in 2008. This has experts concerned not just about the increase in cases, but also ab...UGA vet school receives $1.18 million NIH grant for rabies vaccine investigations
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine a $1.18 million grant to develop rabies virus vaccines. This award is the continuation of a previous four-year $837,000 grant issued ...Jefferson immunology researchers halt lethal rabies infection in brain
(PHILADELPHIA) While rabies, an ancient scourge that still kills 70,000 every year in developing countries worldwide can be combated with a series of vaccines today, it nearly is always fatal when it reaches the brain. But now, immunology researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson ha...Dead Skunk Tests Positive For Rabies
STURBRIDGE, Mass., April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials at Old Sturbridge Village report that a dead skunk was found in a cow pen on Thursday. In accordance with procedures, the OSV farm staff notified local animal control and board of health officials. The remains were sent to t...Sanofi Pasteur Enters Agreement With Crucell for Next-Generation Biologicals Against Rabies
Exclusive Agreement for Rabies Monoclonal Antibodies to Fight Fatal Disease LYON, France, January 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that it has signed an exclusive collaboration and commercialization agreement with Crucell ...MultiVu Video Feed: PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS CONVENE TO DISCUSS THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF RABIES
WORLD RABIES DAY IS SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 Veterinarians Remind Americans to Vaccinate their Pets September 8th is World Rabies Day, designated to highlight the issue that despite advances in prevention, rabies is still a serious health problem. An estimated fifty to sixty thousand people die of r...Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak
A rabies outbreak which killed over 100 people last year in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday. A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by veterinary officials. Docto...Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak
A rabies outbreak which killed over 100 people last year in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday . A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by veterinary officials. Doctors a...Study Finds the Spread of Rabies in North American Raccoons
A new study has detailed how initial demographic, ecological and genetic processes simultaneously shaped the spread of rabies virus in North American raccoons. A raccoon is a mammal native to the Americas. Although raccoons are common throughout North America, their impact as a rab...Global Rabies Treatment May be Possible with NanoViricides Drugs
WEST HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2007 - NanoViricides, Inc. (Pink Sheets: NNVC) discussed today the results of recent animal studies against rabies that were presented along with the successful BSL3 in vitro studies against a Clade 2 H5N1 virus at the 23rd Annual Symposium of the Pan Ame...China Animal Welfare Law Under Review While 36,000 Dogs Culled
...vince has reached a death toll of 36,000. Claiming rabies outbreak, the city has sent out dog-beating squads...Mass killing of dogs is ineffective in controlling rabies in the long-term. By choosing not to implement a sensible rabies vaccination program, Hanzhong government has faile...Rabies Vaccination Program Underway in Western Pennsylvania
...SNewswire/ -- An annual program that helps control rabies in wild animals is underway in western Pennsylvani...ture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today. The oral rabies vaccination baiting program covers all or parts of...estmoreland counties. "Controlling the spread of rabies in wild animals is essential to human and domestic...Dog Law Officers' Crackdown on Unsatisfactory Kennels Protecting Animals, Consumers
...wardens inspected an unlicensed kennel owned by Steve Earnest of Millerstown, Perry County, after receiving a complaint. Wardens found 45 dogs without rabies vaccinations living in unsatisfactory kennel conditions and cited Earnest on numerous kennel regulation violations. When wardens returned three weeks ...Artificial induction of immunity
...d a crude preparation of the infectious agent for rabies . In a brave piece of rapid medicine development, ... performing the same inactivating process upon his rabies preparation and then inoculating the patient with ...ax is now known to be caused by a bacterium , and rabies is known to be caused by a virus . The microscop...Hope for a rabies eradication strategy in Africa
Most of the rabies virus circulating in dogs in western and central Africa comes from a common ancestor introduced to the continent around 200 years ago, probably by European colonialists. In the current issue of Journal of General Virology a team of scientists from Africa, USA and France report...Jefferson researchers building a better rabies vaccine
In an unexpected discovery, scientists at Jefferson Medical College have found that a tiny change in a rabies virus protein can turn a "safe" virus extremely deadly. The finding has enabled the researchers to refine a vaccine they previously created against rabies in wildlife, making it safer and m...Amarna Therapeutics B.V. and TNO announce SVac research and development partnership
...turing clinical trial material has been validated. The whole vector production process is similar to the current manufacturing processes of the polio, rabies and influenza virus vaccines in which a master seed virus is seeded to producer cells in large fermentors. Because of its immunological inertia in man...NAU discovery could help feed millions
...inate against rabies, you won't be able to make a dent. You have to combine rabies vaccinations with fertility control." She hopes to address rabies problems on the rise in West Africa, India and China. Australia hopes t...CSHL researchers pinpoint structure-building role for 2 non-coding RNAs
...eriments performed by others bear him out: levels of paraspeckle-building MEN RNAs have been observed to increase in mouse brain cells infected by the rabies virus. Spector's work on nuclear ncRNAs continues. "Whether other nuclear compartments also similarly serve as RNA stores and what roles ncRNAs mi...Lincoln Park Zoo awarded $1.5 million grant for new research institute
...h people's values to find more pragmatic solutions. People are also becoming increasingly exposed to zoonotic disease threats such as West Nile Virus, rabies and Avian Influenza; it's important to understand the interactions between people and nature so that real solutions can be established." "We are ve...Nature Medicine study shows Peregrine's bavituximab can cure lethal virus infections
... cells infected with HIV, influenza (including avian flu), herpes simplex viruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, measles and members of the small pox and rabies virus families. Dr. Barton Haynes, director of Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) is c...Recovery efforts not enough for critically endangered Asian vulture
... direct threat to public health as well, as uneaten livestock carcasses provide breeding grounds for bacteria and attract feral dogs, which may spread rabies and other diseases. When any large population crashes, as the vultures have, the amount of genetic diversity in the population also is likely to dw...New molecular clock from LLNL and CDC indicates smallpox evolved earlier than believed
...cular hypotheses of its evolution is supported or disproved, said corresponding author Inger Damon, M.D., Ph.D., acting chief of the CDCs Poxvirus and rabies Branch. It shows the delineation of tantalizing potential connections between different isolates. Analysis of isolates from geographically dispers...Blood-brain barrier breached by new therapeutic strategy
... now shown that a short protein (peptide) from the rabies virus can carry a strip of therapeutic material in...hey then injected the antiviral siRNA bound to the rabies peptide through the tail veins in one group of mic...he mice that got the antiviral siRNA linked to the rabies peptide survived. These experiments demonstrate ho...China Bio-Immunity Corporation - Rabies Vaccine Recall
DALIAN, China, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Bio-Immunity Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CHHB) (China Bio-Immunity" or "the Company"), a China-based company that develops, produces, manufactures and markets proprietary vaccine-based prophylactics and therapeutics exclusively within Chi...Developing a Safer and More Effective Way to Deliver Rabies Antibodies
INCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Celltrion, Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, have signed a Letter of Intent to permit joint research on the development of novel antibodies to protect people exposed to the rabie...Sinovac Enters Veterinary Vaccine Market with Inactivated Rabies Vaccine
BEIJING, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NYSE Alternext US: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian Biological Engineering Co., Ltd, has obtained approval from China's Ministry of Agriculture to conduct field ...China Bio-Immunity Corporation Initiates Voluntary Recalls of Rabies Vaccines
DALIAN, China, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Bio-Immunity Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CHHB) (China Bio-Immunity" or "the Company"), a China-based company that develops, produces, manufactures and markets proprietary vaccine-based prophylactics and therapeutics exclusively w...Sinovac Receives China's First Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine Order
... 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and human rabies vaccine. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccines. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains f...Sinovac Completes Construction of H1N1 Virus Seed Bank
... 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and human rabies vaccine. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccines. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains ...Sinovac Begins the Production of Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine
... 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and human rabies vaccine. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccines. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains f...China's Vice Premier, Li Keqiang, Visits Sinovac to Inspect H1N1 Vaccine Production Preparation
... 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and human rabies vaccine. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccines. Safe Harbor Statement This announcement contains f...Sinovac to Host Conference Call to Report First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
... 71, Universal Pandemic Influenza, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and Human rabies vaccine. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccines. Contact Information: Investors...