Measles inoculation.

Intracerebral inoculation of rhesus monkeys with a strain of measles virus isolated from a case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

Measles virus isolated from the brain of a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was injected intracerebrally (ic) into 34 rhesus monkeys. Groups of these animals were injected with measles antigen in Freund's complete adjuvant or treated by schedules used for suppression of the general or cell-mediated immune responsiveness. In another group of animals, experimental allergic encepha...

Costs and benefits of a second measles inoculation of children in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Measles has been targeted by the WHO as a disease which should be eradicated. Use of existing vaccines during infancy has resulted in a substantial decline in cases in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. However the disease continues to occur in epidemic waves with large scale morbidity and mortality in all of these populations. This paper estimates the costs and benefits of three ...

Concerning Inoculation

the efficacy of that procedure in the way which had been commended, for such purposes, in my evidence to the Plague Commission of 1898-99, and in which I had been testing curative treatments in India. The experiment on that occasion was not completed by them, and although the preliminary statement which they made oil the results was favourable to the therapy, they did not persevere with the stu...

Measles immunization in IRAN

Measles and measles vaccine in Japan.

Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1971, measles was a common and well-recognized disease in Japanese children. Seroepidemiological studies conducted before the general use of the vaccine disclosed that measles epidemics differed from community to community; in rural areas, epidemics appeared at intervals of several years with the accumulation of susceptibles, and in urban areas, mea...