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Patterns of smallpox mortality in London, England, over three centuries.
PLoS Biology, 2020 Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated.
Olga Krylova, David J D Earn
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The role of research in viral disease eradication and elimination programs: Lessons for malaria eradication [PDF]
, 2011 By examining the role research has played in eradication or regional elimination initiatives for three viral diseases-smallpox, poliomyelitis, and measles-we derive nine cross-cutting lessons applicable to malaria eradication.
Breman, JG +6 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 Objective In Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, we observed that having a smallpox vaccination scar was associated with lower HIV-1 prevalence, more strongly for women than men.
Marie Villumsen +8 more
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Reflections on Dr J Michael Lane, a giant of public health (1936-2020)
Global Biosecurity, 2020 Reflections on Dr J Michael Lane (1936-2020) a global leader in smallpox eradication and the Director of Smallpox Eradication at the US CDC. Dr Lane was an alumnus of the US CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service and had worked in global health on control ...
C Raina MacIntyre
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Viruses, 2011 CMX001, a lipophilic nucleotide analog formed by covalently linking 3‑(hexdecyloxy)propan-1-ol to cidofovir (CDV), is being developed as a treatment for smallpox.
Richard W. Moyer +7 more
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, 2017 Contains fulltext : 190586.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)20 ...
Devos, Isabelle, Janssens, Angélique
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Health Science Reports, 2022 Background and aims There is a sought for vaccines and antiviral agents as countermeasures for the recent monkeypox outbreak. Here, we aimed to review and discuss the repurposing potentials of smallpox vaccines and drugs in monkeypox outbreaks based on ...
Md. Rabiul Islam +6 more
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Epidemiology and Infection, 1969 SUMMARYIn practically all acute fulminating smallpox infections—haemorrhagic type I cases—there is severe viraemia with 104 or more infective particles of virus per ml. of blood. In most of these patients soluble antigen can be demonstrated in serum by precipitation in agar gel tests, or by the complement-fixation technique. In late haemorrhagic cases (
A W, Downie +4 more
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Influence of Population Immunosuppression and Past Vaccination on Smallpox Reemergence
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 We built a SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infected, recovered) model of smallpox transmission for New York, New York, USA, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that accounted for age-specific population immunosuppression and residual vaccine immunity and
C. Raina MacIntyre +7 more
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Vaccines, 2022 Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. According to WHO guidelines, the smallpox vaccine is administrated by scarification into the epidermis using a bifurcated needle moistened with a vaccine solution.
Sang-Gu Yim +11 more
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