antitoxin
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There is an antitoxin that doctors can give.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
As diphtheria - a serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection - spread among Nome's people, its port was icebound, meaning antitoxin would have to be delivered overland.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023
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 ● Sep. 23, 2021
So even if this approach works, patients will likely also need the approved antitoxin treatment to remove toxin from the blood.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 6, 2021
If they have once committed themselves to the expression of the opinion that antitoxin is of no value, then no amount of evidence will succeed in changing their opinion.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley