but the local harbor froze before a ship could deliver the treatment. By January 1925, he was seeing children suffering from diphtheria. There had to be a way to bring in the anti-serum ...

He hadn’t seen a case of diphtheria in the 18 years he had practiced in the area. Within months, that changed. In a telegram, ...

Experts only discovered an effective treatment for diphtheria around the turn of the 20th century, when public health ...

Antivenom is still produced by much the same method that was developed in the 1890s to produce antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus ... venom are later harvested via bleeding. The blood serum or ...

It was a study of the side-effects of administration of large quantities of foreign serum that contains antitoxins, a technique that was used for the treatment of diphtheria and tetanus.

There was a recent diphtheria outbreak at the King’s College Annex, Lagos, that led to the demise of one of the affected students, while other affected students were taken to LUTH for treatment ...

Why were some rushed to LUTH for treatment? This could have been ... where he received antibiotics and diphtheria antitoxin serum. However, despite medical intervention, he succumbed to severe ...

Following the outbreak of diphtheria in King’s ... and prompt treatment of infection with antibiotics and anttoxoid serum to neutralise the effect of the toxin on organs.

Medical examinations confirmed that 12 of them had early signs of the disease, and they were immediately placed on treatment, receiving antibiotics and diphtheria antitoxin serum. As of now ...