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Global perspectives on smallpox vaccine against monkeypox: a comprehensive meta-analysis and systematic review of effectiveness, protection, safety and cross-immunogenicity

Emerging Microbes and Infections
A large outbreak of monkeypox occurred in 2022, and most people lack immunity to orthopoxvirus. Smallpox vaccination is essential for preventing further smallpox outbreaks.
Hao Liu, Wenjing Wang, Yang Zhang, Fuchun Wang, Junyi Duan, Tao Huang, Xiaojie Huang, Tong Zhang   +7 more
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Evolution of means and principles of smallpox vaccination

Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020
There are several possible reasons for the return of smallpox as an endemic disease. For example, the possibility of maintaining smallpox virus in an active state in the corpses of the dead, buried in permafrost regions, or the evolutionary changes of ...
S. V. Borisevich, V. N. Podkuyko, A. P. Pirozhkov, A. I. Terent'ev, V. P. Krasnyansky, E. V. Rozhdestvensky, S. V. Nazarov, S. V. Kuznecov   +7 more
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Monkeypox Goes North: Ongoing Worldwide Monkeypox Infections in Humans

Viruses, 2022
In the late 1970s, global vaccination programs resulted in the eradication of smallpox. The Monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is closely related to the smallpox-inducing variola virus, was previously endemic only in Sub-Saharan Africa but is currently ...
Barbara S. Schnierle
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking the History of Smallpox in the Early Twentieth Century: The and Uncertainty Surrounding the Diagnosis of Smallpox [PDF]

Uisahak, 2020
This research explores the case of the 1903 smallpox outbreak on the SS Korea, a transpacific carrier making runs between Southeast Asia, East Asia, Hawaii, and the United States.
Hyon Ju LEE
doaj   +1 more source

Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef, Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Petra Bauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic Vaccines and Antibodies for Treatment of Orthopoxvirus Infections

Viruses, 2010
Despite the eradication of smallpox several decades ago, variola and monkeypox viruses still have the potential to become significant threats to public health.
Stuart N. Isaacs, Yuhong Xiao
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Monkeypox Virus Preparation on the Lethality of the Intravenous Cynomolgus Macaque Model

Viruses, 2022
For over two decades, researchers have sought to improve smallpox vaccines and also develop therapies to ensure protection against smallpox or smallpox-like disease.
Eric M. Mucker, Josh D. Shamblin, Jo Lynne Raymond, Nancy A. Twenhafel, Robert F. Garry, Lisa E. Hensley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of multi-stage infections on networks [PDF]

, 2015
This paper investigates the dynamics of infectious diseases with a nonexponentially distributed infectious period. This is achieved by considering a multistage infection model on networks. Using pairwise approximation with a standard closure, a number of
AJ Black, AL Lloyd, AL Lloyd, CA Donnelly, CT Bauch, D Anderson, DR Cox, DT Gillespie, E Kenah, EH Kaplan, G Chowell, HJ Wearing, HTH Nguyen, HW Hethcote, I. Z. Kiss, J Ma, JC Miller, JM Hyman, JP Koplan, K Sharkey, K. B. Blyuss, KB Blyuss, KTD Eames, KTD Eames, L Danon, M Newman, M Newman, M Taylor, MEJ Newman, MI Meltzer, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, MJ Keeling, N MacDonald, N. Sherborne, NM Ferguson, NM Ferguson, NTJ Bailey, O Diekmann, O Diekmann, P Driessche van den, P Rattana, R Durrett, RE Hope-Simpson, RM Anderson, S Bansal, S Boccaletti, S Cauchemez, S Funk, S Riley, T House, T House, T House, TL Burr, V Andreasen, W Kermack, W-Y Chen, Z Feng   +59 more
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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source