Inoculation of an Entire Community with Haffkine's Plague Vaccine

The Plague Commission on Haffkine's Anti-Plague Inoculation

An Assessment of the Value of Plague Vaccine (Haffkine Institute) as Used in a Single Dose Mass Inoculation. (A Field Enquiry.)

not correct and gives a false idea regarding the protective power of the vaccine. In fact, none of the dead bacterial vaccines could be relied upon to give absolute protection against an overwhelming infection and the same is true of plague vaccine. However, recently some public health officers and medical men in the province working in the field have doubted as to whether it is of any value at...

Accidental self-inoculation in a veterinarian with attenuated vaccine of bovine Johne’s disease

Herein, we described the first case of self-inoculation in a veterinarian with bovine Johne’s disease(BJD) attenuated vaccine in Iran that required medical attention. A needle-stick injury to the right thumb of ayoung veterinarian during vaccination of cattle with BJD vaccine resulted in an inflammation that not onlyfailed to resolve but also progressed to a lesion 2.5 cm in diameter. The usual...

Concerning Inoculation against Plague and Pneumonia

A Historical Report of Plague Outbreak in Northwestern Iran, 1966

Plague is an endemic disease to the west of Iran and has frequently stricken this area over the last decades. In 1954, Pasteur Institute of Iran established a research station in the west of the country and since then has monitored the plague outbreaks as well as the disease status in rodents and carnivores by dispatching research teams to different villages and localities. We noticed that ther...