The Journal of Immunology had an article that showed there was some enhanced immunity against Ebola with those that have been vaccinated against rabies. The challenges were only in primates, no human subjects have been tested....yet.
Oh, goodie. The whole family but for the youngest had the rabies series fifteen years ago, and my oldest daughter just had the complete series again.
So she’s the one we’ll send out to forage. :) I guess the dog can go too.
I guess the GSD will be okay.
“The Journal of Immunology had an article that showed there was some enhanced immunity against Ebola with those that have been vaccinated against rabies. The challenges were only in primates, no human subjects have been tested....yet.”
You may be either misremembering the article, or laboring under a misconception. I’m familiar with research published last year on experimental bivalent vaccines in primates, but that’s not a “rabies vaccine”, it’s a modified rabies virus designed to express cell-surface antigens of the ebola virus.
Regular vaccination against rabies, to the best of my knowledge and journal searching capability, provides no protection against ebola. The misconception arises from the fact that researchers are trying to create an effective ebola vaccine by modifying rabies viruses to express ebola virus glycoproteins.
Link if you’re interested: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667758/