The first thing you should budget for in terms of veterinarian costs is vaccinating your dog and having himneutered or spayed. These are the two primary things you'll need to take care of right from the start (unless the shelter you've adopted from has done that for you). I recommend y...
For many of us,chickenpox(known in clinical circles as varicella) was a routine part of childhood – a minor annoyance, but rarely life-threatening. For that reason, a chickenpoxvaccinewas met with some skepticism when it was introduced in 1995. Still, there was a push in the United States...
In the fall of 2004, doctors in Wisconsin induced a seven-day coma in a 15-year-old girl with rabies (a disease that ravages the brain and often leads to death). After emerging from the coma, the girl began to recover. Read More How Do You Know if Someone is in a Coma? A coma...
In the UK, in 2013, there was a well reported case of a fox managing to get into the bedroom of a baby in London, biting the four-week old, requiring urgent medical attention. This is a very rare occurrence. Foxes are usually rather shy creatures, and ones that would much prefer to...
Most focused on human and animal health outcomes, with rare consideration of the environmental component. Social factors such as strong stakeholder support and the cultural suitability of OH initiatives were often reported as facilitating elements of a successful implementation of OH initiatives. ...
Sanofi had grown into one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms through acquisitions. But it traces its history back to the days of Louis Pasteur, the renowned French scientist who, among other things, invented the rabies and anthrax vaccines. He founded the Pasteur Institute, the respecte...
Rabies is fatal in humans if not treated soon after contact. The disease can be transferred through contact with blood, feces, urine, or even a decaying corpse. A person who has been exposed to a possibly rabid critter will have to endure a series of painful inoculations to ensure the dis...
In 1975, Milstein and Köhler revolutionized the medical world with the development of the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies. Since then, monoclonal antibodies have entered almost every branch of biomedical research. Antibodies are n
As much we love them,dogs are still descended from wolvesand, like wolves, they bite. While dying from a dog bite on its ownis incredibly rare, you should make sure your four-legged friend has had its shots regardless. That's becausedogs are the lead sourceof rabies deaths in humans, ...
There is no universal donor or recipient feline blood groups, but the vast majority (around 90 percent) of domestic cats have type A blood, while more exotic purebreds often type B. AB is also possible, but very rare. Like dogs, horse blood groups are loosely organized along breed lines,...