Prevention Immediate de la Rage chez L'homme Apres Morsure en Iran

Abstract

A new and efficient organization of the early preventron of rabies in man can be proposed thanks to the serum prepared by the Razi Insti~ute in the dried form. This serum, highly concentrated, has therefore an outstanding potency, but a complete innocuity; its dry state allows a perfect c~nservation without special precautions. All medical centers, e.ven the m?st re~ote m the parts Of,the country where rabies remains enzootic, WIll be provided WIth a reserve of this serum, so that eventlhe peasants of the most distant vmages can receive the saving injection .in time, i.e. during the seventy two hours after the inoculation of the virus by the biting animal. Under the protection of the serum the sending of the wounded tow~rds Teheran is 'not, as in the past, a dramatic emergency and would be avoided in many cases. ThLis paper gives then to the physicians the necessary hints, not only for the use of the serum and the wound treatment, but also for the observation of the wounded and of the biting animal.