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Author Organization, World Health

Title Rabies and Envenomings : a Neglected Public Health Issue
Published Geneva : World Health Organization, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (38 pages)
Contents Preliminaries; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; RABIES AND ENVENOMINGS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRODUCTION AND CONTROL OF THERAPEUTIC ANTISERA; DISTRIBUTION AND APPROPRIATE USE OF THERAPEUTIC ANTISERA; SCALES OF PRODUCTION; PREQUALIFICATION OF ANTISERA; TOWARDS A GLOBAL SOLUTION; REFERENCES; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Summary This publication reports on a Consultative Meeting convened to discuss strategies for improving the quality and quantity of therapeutic antisera, essential drugs for the effective treatment of suspected rabid dog bites, and envenoming by snake bites and scorpion stings. Inadequacies in the efficacy, safety and production of these antisera have created a major global public health crisis, especially in Africa and Asia. Each year, millions of people are bitten by dogs or snakes or stung by scorpions, and the failure to provide antisera costs at least 150,000 lives and at least as many cases of p
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Subject Rabies -- Patients -- Medical care
Rabies -- Epidemiology
Rabies -- Chemotherapy
Bites and stings -- Patients -- Medical care
Bites and stings -- Epidemiology
Bites and stings -- Chemotherapy
Immune serums -- Therapeutic use
Drug utilization.
Poisonous animals -- Venom -- Physiological effect
Drug Utilization
Drug utilization
Rabies -- Epidemiology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789240682900
9240682902