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‘Prevention is Better Than Cure’: Smallpox Vaccination in Postcolonial Tanzania, 1961–1980
Zamani: A Journal of African Historical StudiesThis article examines the smallpox vaccination programme in postcolonial Tanzania from the 1960s to the early 1980s as part of the postcolonial future making in preventive medicine.
Musa Sadock
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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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Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873. [PDF]
In this paper, we re-examine the effect of smallpox on the height attained by those who suffered from this disease. To this end, we analyse a dataset assembled by Floud, Wachter and Gregory on the height of recruits into the Marine Society, 1770-1873 ...
Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim
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International Journal of Infectious DiseasesObjectives: The data on immune responses of individuals undergoing modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vaccination are scarce. We aimed to compare Mpox virus-specific antibody and neutralizing antibody responses among people with and those ...
Wang-Da Liu +28 more
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Surveillance and Control Measures after Smallpox Outbreaks
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 We reviewed historical data from 2 smallpox outbreaks in Liverpool and Edinburgh during the early and middle years of the 20th century to assess their contribution to developing modern strategies for response to a deliberate release of smallpox virus ...
Emma Kerrod +3 more
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Mpox Epidemics: A Call to Restore Humanity’s Lost Herd Immunity to Orthopoxviruses
VirusesGlobal efforts to eradicate smallpox—an Orthopoxvirus infection—began in the mid-20th century, with the last naturally occurring case reported in 1977. This was achieved through global solidarity efforts that expanded the smallpox eradication vaccination
Misaki Wayengera +11 more
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CDC policy on unused smallpox vaccine [PDF]
CDC has developed this policy on unused smallpox vaccine in response to questions raised by several smallpox vaccination programs and to provide a recommendation on maintaining a readiness to respond to an attack involving the use of smallpox.
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Smallpox vaccines: New formulations and revised strategies for vaccination
, 2009 Smallpox has been eradicated but stockpiles of the causative infectious agent, variola virus, have been maintained over decades. Today, the threat of accidental or intentional poxvirus release is accompanied by the fact that the existing licensed ...
Paran, Nir, Sutter, Gerd
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250 Years of Smallpox Vaccination in Europe
, 2018 This paper discusses the effects of smallpox vaccination on the public opinion, 250 yrs. ago. Dr. Dimsdale and Dr. Ingen-Housz, and Empress-Queen Maria Theresa are highlighted, and we conclude our literature search with the Wiener Zeitung weekend edition
Zubova, Irina A. +4 more
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