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Prevention of rabies by vitamin C

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MURATA1 reported on the virucidal activity of vitamin C and stated that vitamin C prevents various virus diseases. Clinical trials by F. Morishige (unpublished) showed that the incidence of transfusion hepatitis was decreased drastically when vitamin C was injected (3–7 g d−1) for 1–2 weeks after blood transfusion, and Murata has pointed out that vitamin C is effective in the therapy of measles and mumps1. I have now found that it also helps to prevent rabies.

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  1. Murata, A., Abstr. 1st Intersectional Congr. Int. Ass. Microbiol. Soc., Tokyo (edit. by Science Council of Japan, 1974).

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BANIC, S. Prevention of rabies by vitamin C. Nature 258, 153–154 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258153a0

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