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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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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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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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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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Following in the footsteps of smallpox: can we achieve the global eradication of measles? [PDF]
, 2004 BACKGROUND: Although an effective measles vaccine has been available for almost 40 years, in 2000 there were about 30 million measles infections worldwide and 777,000 measles-related deaths.
Morgan Oliver WC +2 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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Eczema Herpeticum and Clinical Criteria for Investigating Smallpox
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria for high risk for smallpox.
David A. Boyd +2 more
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Teaching a new mouse old tricks: Humanized mice as an infection model for Variola virus.
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 Smallpox, caused by the solely human pathogen Variola virus (VARV), was declared eradicated in 1980. While known VARV stocks are secure, smallpox remains a bioterrorist threat agent. Recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the first smallpox
Christina L Hutson +13 more
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