Cremation is considerably cheaper than an open funeral. The average cost, according to the Cremation Association of North America, is $1,650, which includes a memorial service. Without the memorial service, an average cremation is $725.
Using a strategy modeled after the LYMERix vaccine, which was pulled from the market in 2002 after four years of sales for allegedly causing damaging side effects, Gomes-Solecki and her team developed an oral solution with a different target: the white-footed mice.
When did vaccine first become available for diphthe-ria, tetanus, and pertussis? The first inactivated toxin, or toxoid, against diph-theria was developed around 1921, but it was not widely used until the 1930s. In 1924, the first teta-nus toxoid (inactivated toxin) was produced and was used successfully to prevent tetanus in the armed services during World War II.