Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria David Kindy ...

Hospitals that began using his serum therapy saw dramatic drops in mortality rates. In some cases, the death rate among children with diphtheria plummeted from 50% to less than 10%. For the public ...

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, Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum ...

India's leading vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India has manufactured for the first time first indigenous Tetanus and Diphtheria (Td) vaccines . The vaccine is called Td-Vac and will ...

Ukraine has received 249 vials of anti-diphtheria serum within the framework of cooperation between ... but is a key tool for preventing toxic damage to the body during the treatment of patients in ...

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.