Talk:Antitoxin

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New section:" 21st-century serum therapy"

The average person is probably minimally aware that serum therapy is still important in the age of vaccination and antibiotics. There exists a range of antisera, used both to treat and prevent infectious diseases (IDs) in the un- or under-immunized, as well as for other purposes, such as envenomation prophylaxis and laboratory analysis. The primary intent of the proposed section is to enumerate for the average reader which diseases are treated with antitoxins at present (and/or in research for future use), and under what circumstances they are used in ID prevention, despite serum therapy's being a somewhat "ancient" modality. Should some other WP article happen to have the same material as the proposed section (please let me know), it will of course need to be rather brief. Anyone with a good link on this subject is welcome to place the link below as a reply, or feel free to edit the article directly. If this section fills out, it may eventually qualify to become its own article. --Quisqualis (talk) 02:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You could include antivenom treatment to your section. It uses horse serum or more modern reprocessed sheep antibody fragments. Regardless of processing, both are still antibody treatmentsMartinezMD (talk) 03:17, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]