antitoxin

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There is an antitoxin that doctors can give.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

Sled dog teams, including Balto’s, transported vials of diphtheria antitoxin in a 674-mile relay from Nenana, Alaska, braving intense winds and wind-chill temperatures of –85 degrees Fahrenheit.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

As diphtheria - a serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection - spread among Nome's people, its port was icebound, meaning antitoxin would have to be delivered overland.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023

Dr. Park was responsible for helping mass-produce an antitoxin that served as a breakthrough in treating and preventing diphtheria, a disease that killed many of the small children and others who share his burial ground.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

The change in his blood which we effect by injecting antitoxin makes him temporarily safe against diphtheria.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)