Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) is a severe circulatory and organ failure caused by bacterial toxins, usually triggered by bacteria from the Staphylococcus group. Researchers from Vienna's Department of Clinical Pharmacology, in collaboration with a company in Vienna, have now developed the world's first safe and effective vaccine against this disease and successfully tested it in a Phase I trial. The promising results were recently published in the leading journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases . This syndrome was first described in the 1980s.
General symptoms of sepsis or blood poisoning occurred in young women who had used so-called "super tampons" during their periods. This is why the syndrome was also known as "tampon disease". This subsequently led to the absorption capacity of tampons being regulated. Staphylococci colonize nearly all of us, especially on our skin and mucous…
