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Evidence of Long-Distance Aerial Convection of Variola Virus and Implications for Disease Control
Two distinct phenomena of airborne transmission of variola virus (smallpox) were described in the pre-eradication era—direct respiratory transmission, and a unique phenomenon of transmission over greater distances, referred to as “aerial ...
Chandini Raina MacIntyre +4 more
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Mpox Airborne Transmission: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Since May 2022, mpox has been reported across multiple nonendemic regions, with concurrent outbreaks in diverse geographic settings, raising concerns about broader international spread. However, evidence regarding the risk of airborne transmission remains limited.
Lucas Ferreira Theotonio dos Santos +6 more
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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.
Scott Foster +14 more
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
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
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Navigating resistance in global health governance: Certification of smallpox eradication in China
Certification is an essential stage in disease eradication efforts, encompassing epidemiological, managerial, and political complexities. The certification of smallpox eradication in the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China) exemplifies the ...
Lu Chen
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Background Previous smallpox ring vaccination models based on contact tracing over a network suggest that ring vaccination would be effective, but have not explicitly included response logistics and limited numbers of vaccinators.
Portnoy Diane L +5 more
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Abstract Global policy‐making is often described as taking place in a fragmented and complex institutional landscape. In this article, we revisit the verdict of fragmentation through the lens of discourse network analysis, seeking to understand the extent to which global policy debates can be characterised as fragmented.
Maria Weickardt Soares +1 more
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Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun: Nuxalk Governance, Language, and the Museum Public
ABSTRACT This review suggests that Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun reframes the ethnographic gallery as a site of protocol rather than as a trophy case. Co‐curated by Snxakila—Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk Nation) and Jennifer Kramer (UBC MOA), the exhibition centers law, lineage, and language to present belongings and supernatural beings ...
Cheyanne Brown Armstrong, Mark Turin
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During epidemics of smallpox the anticipatory attitude of the physician's mind will often lead him to suspect as variola diseases which bear only a superficial resemblance to it. Contrariwise, in the absence of epidemic prevalence of smallpox, mild cases are apt to be overlooked.
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