antitoxin

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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

“When we launched the tetanus antitoxin, I could have sold it at five times the price,” Cyrus says.

From Science Magazine

The site is located within a pharma industry cluster whose roots go back more than a century to Nobel Prize winner Emil von Behring, who developed the antitoxin for diptheria and tetanus.

From Seattle Times

One of the regional operations, Operation Togo, harks back to the grueling 1925 sled dog run that rushed diphtheria antitoxin across the state to an outbreak in Nome.

From New York Times

So even if this approach works, patients will likely also need the approved antitoxin treatment to remove toxin from the blood.

From Science Magazine