antitoxin

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There is an antitoxin that doctors can give.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

WHO purchases antitoxin, made in horses, from just two companies, and supply has been problematic for a decade.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 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

In February 1925, in the midst of a diphtheria outbreak, a relay of sled dog teams delivered an emergency supply of antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, which had been isolated by snow.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

The antitoxin produced in the contest of the body cells against some diseases will not only neutralise the toxin of a particular disease, but it will also neutralise the toxin of a second disease.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin