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Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi , 1898-1988, American physicist, b. Austria, grad. Cornell Univ., 1919, Ph.D. Columbia, 1927. A teacher at Columbia from 1929, he became professor of physics in 1937. He is known for his work in magnetism, molecular beams, and quantum mechanics. For his discovery and measurement of the radio-frequency spectra of atomic nuclei whose magnetic spin has been disturbed, he was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics. From 1952 to 1956 he was chairman of the general advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission. He was appointed (1957) chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee and served as consultant to many national and international organizations.
Bibliography: See his autobiography (1960); Science: The Center of Culture (ed. by R. N. Anshen, 1970).
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RABIES: PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE POST EXPOSURE TREATMENT VACCINATION, CAUTION AROUND WILDLIFE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...highlight the need to remain vigilant against rabies. A rabid dog was identified in Onslow...requiring seven exposed persons to receive rabies post exposure treatment; a ferret tested positive for rabies in Buncombe County, the first ferret ever...
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Rabies Remains a Costly Public Health Threat, Says Jefferson University Virologist; While Raccoon Inoculation Program Continues in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere, Increasing Cases of Bat Rabies Raise Concerns.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 10/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...AScribe Newswire) -- No one in this country gets rabies anymore. It's a Third World problem. Everyone...vaccine for people. Most of us hardly think about rabies at all. Maybe we should start. Rabies, an ancient viral disease that conjures up...
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Rabies in ferret badgers, southeastern China.(DISPATCHES)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Rabies is an acute encephalomyelitis caused by rabies or rabies-related viruses. Although dogs are the main reservoir worldwide, all mammals are believed to be susceptible. When rabies is widely distributed, affected wildlife may constitute...
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Rabies: Risks, recognition, and prophylaxis
Magazine article from: Formulary; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; INTRODUCTION Rabies and its relationship to the bite of a "mad dog...in Mesopotamia more than 4000 years ago, in which rabies was identified as a cause of "wrongful death."3 Rabies encephalomyelitis (inflammatory disorder of the...
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Rabies: a growing threat. (includes related article)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 10/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Rolando Barian of Edinburg, Texas, died of rabies. He was bitten by a dog. The rabies virus was most likely transferred from a coyote...dog, because coyotes are the main carriers of rabies in Texas. Rabies is not just a problem in Texas...
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Rabies vaccine shortfall spurs tighter restrictions.(Infectious Diseases)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 9/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...care providers who prescribe postexposure rabies prophylaxis must confer with public health...doses of the vaccine because the only rabies vaccine available is in limited supply...Prevention has announced. An update on rabies vaccine availability posted on the CDC...
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Rabies cases a continuing threat to global public health: ancient disease still a modern problem.
Magazine article from: The Nation's Health; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...one of the world's oldest diseases, rabies continues to surprise the vigilant public...person every 10 minutes, die due to rabies, even though such deaths are preventable. Like many diseases, rabies' mortality burden falls disproportionately...
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RABIES: FACTS FOR PREVENTION YOU SHOULD KNOW FEDERAL DOCUMENT CLEARING HOUSE, INC.
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 1/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Amador County, Calif., a 49-year-old man died of rabies. Although there was no history of a bite wound from...probable source animal for this particular case of rabies. The word rabies conjures up images of a dog foaming at the mouth and...
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Rabies risk among travellers
Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal; 2/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; How do you get rabies? Rabies is a preventable, deadly disease transmitted through contact with...mouth, or scratches that break the skin. Although extremely rare, rabies may occur after exposure to aerosolized rabies virus in a cave filled...
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Rabies prevention - United states, 1991; recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP).
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 3/22/1991; 700+ words
; ...INTRODUCTION Following the marked decrease of rabies cases among domestic animals in the United...1940s and 1950s, indigenously acquired rabies among humans decreased to fewer than two...1950, for example, 4,979 cases of rabies were reported among dogs and 18 were reported...
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Rabies Vaccine
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Rabies vaccine Definition Rabies vaccine is an injection that provides protection against the rabies virus that can be transmitted to humans via the saliva of an infected animal. Rabies is fatal in humans unless it is prevented with a vaccine...
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Rabies
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
Rabies What Is Rabies? How Common Is Rabies? Is Rabies Contagious? What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Rabies? Making the Diagnosis How Do Doctors Treat Rabies? How Long Does the Disease Last and What Are the Complications? Can Rabies Be Prevented...
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rabies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
rabies or hydrophobia , acute viral infection of...successful vaccine in 1885. Since then, human rabies has become rare in the United States and...used in an effort to stem an increase of rabies cases in the United States and Canada that...
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Animal Bites
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...In these cases, a doctor should examine the wound. Rabies Rabies is a viral disease that affects the nervous system. A rabid animal, whose saliva contains the rabies virus, can infect another animal or a person by biting...
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Negri, Adelchi
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Medical Society on 27 March 1903, of the rabies corpuscles, now known as “...undertaken to clarify the etiology of rabies and performed on Golgi ’ s advice...Negri found that in animals suffering from rabies, certain cells of the nervous system...
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