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Exploring Floristic Diversity and Medicinal Plant Uses in Venda, Limpopo, South Africa
Feddes Repertorium, Volume 137, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Plants have been an important source of medicine for thousands of years. To better understand the current diversity and usage of medicinal plants, floristic studies are essential. This report documents an expedition conducted in the Venda region of Limpopo, South Africa. The study was carried out in Shanzha and surrounding villages, as well as
Gurusamy Manikandan +2 more
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Frequency of adverse events after vaccination with different vaccinia strains.
PLoS Medicine, 2006 BackgroundLarge quantities of smallpox vaccine have been stockpiled to protect entire nations against a possible reintroduction of smallpox. Planning for an appropriate use of these stockpiled vaccines in response to a smallpox outbreak requires a ...
Mirjam Kretzschmar +4 more
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What Was the Primary Mode of Smallpox Transmission? Implications for Biodefense
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2012 The mode of infection transmission has profound implications for effective containment by public health interventions. The mode of smallpox transmission was never conclusively established.
Donald eMilton +2 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1896 It is not my intention to rudely characterize the world-wide process instituted by Jenner just one century ago, as either inefficient or a failure. As there was more than one road which led to Rome, it may be that there is other than one method by which a given disease may be prevented.
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The American Journal of Bioethics, 2003 This article reviews the history of smallpox and ethical issues that arise with its threat as a biological weapon. Smallpox killed more people than any infectious disease in history--and perhaps three times more people in the 20th Century than were killed by all the wars of that period.
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Baltimore Smallpox Epidemic Collection
, 1871 The Baltimore Smallpox Epidemic Collection comprises correspondence and financial records relating to an epidemic between 1871 and 1882. Topics of interest include smallpox vaccinations, measures taken to prevent the spread of the epidemic, including ...
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Pharmacy‐Based Immunization Delivery: A Comprehensive History and Current Challenges
JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY, Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Pharmacists and their teams have a long history of involvement with vaccines. This paper describes the contributions of pharmacy‐based immunization delivery in the United States from the 1800's to date. Early activities centered around storage and distribution of antitoxins and vaccines. From the 1950s through the early 1990s, pharmacists were
Jean‐Venable R. Goode +4 more
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Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox is derived from the Latin word for \u201cspotted\u201d and refers to
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Developing New Smallpox Vaccines
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001 New stockpiles of smallpox vaccine are required as a contingency for protecting civilian and military personnel against deliberate dissemination of smallpox virus by terrorists or unfriendly governments.
Steven R. Rosenthal +3 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1901 I can not believe that there are many physicians who any longer entertain a doubt as to the genuineness of the mild smallpox that has prevailed to so general an extent during the past two years. The many valuable papers on this subject recently printed inThe Journalshould convince even Dr.
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