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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
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Tracing Identity in a Fragmented Past: Multi‐Proxy Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains From Dungowan Creek, New South Wales, Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human skeletal remains constitute critical archaeological evidence for reconstructing past societies, yet their investigation requires careful ethical, cultural, and legislative consideration. This paper reports on the discovery, recovery and analysis of a set of skeletal remains encountered during a cultural heritage management (CHM ...
Antonella Skepasianos, Cameron Neal, Sarah Croker, Anthony Dosseto, Michelle Fermor, Steve Talbott, Warren Mayers, Joel Mason, Florian Dux, Luke Kirkwood, Pamela Kottaras, Alan N. Williams   +11 more
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Are We Prepared in Case of a Possible Smallpox-Like Disease Emergence?

Viruses, 2017
Smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated, through a concerted vaccination campaign led by the World Health Organization. Since its eradication, routine vaccination against smallpox has ceased, leaving the world population susceptible to ...
Victoria A. Olson, Sergei N. Shchelkunov
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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
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From Control to Elimination: Making the End of Dental Caries Thinkable

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Dental caries remains one of the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases worldwide despite decades of clinical and behavioural interventions. Persistently high prevalence suggests that current approaches are better organised for ongoing disease management than for preventing new disease occurrence.
Habib Benzian, Manu Raj Mathur, Eugenio Beltrán‐Aguilar   +2 more
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The Social Determination of Racial Inequities in Oral Health Among Indigenous Peoples

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To foster a critical analysis of the racial inequities affecting the oral health (OH) of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, framed by the social determination of the health‐disease‐care process (SDHP). Methods This critical literature review articulates the themes of colonisation, Indigenous peoples' oral health and racial inequities in ...
Lucas Fernando Rodrigues dos Santos, Diego Francisco Lima da Silva, Tainá Faustino Mafra, Herika de Arruda Mauricio, Rafael da Silveira Moreira   +4 more
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We should be prepared to smallpox re-emergence

Вопросы вирусологии, 2019
The review contains a brief analysis of the results of investigations conducted during 40 years after smallpox eradication and directed to study genomic organization and evolution of variola virus (VARV) and development of modern diagnostics, vaccines ...
S. N. Shchelkunov, G. A. Shchelkunova
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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown, Nicola Shelton   +8 more
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Third-generation smallpox vaccines induce low-level cross-protecting neutralizing antibodies against Monkeypox virus in laboratory workers

Heliyon
Due to the discontinuation of routine smallpox vaccination after its eradication in 1980, a large part of the human population remains naïve against smallpox and other members of the orthopoxvirus genus.
Damian Jandrasits, Roland Züst, Denise Siegrist, Olivier B. Engler, Benjamin Weber, Kristina M. Schmidt, Hulda R. Jonsdottir   +6 more
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The mortality gradient in town and country: Social class and childhood mortality in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines social‐class and urban–rural differentials in childhood mortality in Sweden from 1880 to 1910, a period of steady mortality decline, ongoing industrialization, and urbanization. Urbanization brought improvements in water quality and sanitation but also increased risks from overcrowding, pollution, and infectious diseases ...
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe
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