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Developing New Smallpox Vaccines
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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Vaccinia Virus: From Crude Smallpox Vaccines to Elaborate Viral Vector Vaccine Design
Various vaccinia virus (VACV) strains were applied during the smallpox vaccination campaign to eradicate the variola virus worldwide. After the eradication of smallpox, VACV gained popularity as a viral vector thanks to increasing innovations in genetic ...
Onur Kaynarcalidan +2 more
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Influence of Population Immunosuppression and Past Vaccination on Smallpox Reemergence
We built a SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infected, recovered) model of smallpox transmission for New York, New York, USA, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that accounted for age-specific population immunosuppression and residual vaccine immunity and
C. Raina MacIntyre +7 more
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Risks and Benefits of Preexposure and Postexposure Smallpox Vaccination
This article presents a model and decision criteria for evaluating a person’s risk of pre- or postexposure smallpox vaccination in light of serious vaccine-related adverse events (death, postvaccine encephalitis and progressive vaccinia).
Martin I. Meltzer
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The Pasteurian contribution to the history of vaccines
Vaccination, the transmission of “vaccine”, a benign disease of cows, to immunize human beings against smallpox, was invented by Jenner at the end of the eighteenth century.
Schwartz, Maxime
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Background and aims There is a sought for vaccines and antiviral agents as countermeasures for the recent monkeypox outbreak. Here, we aimed to review and discuss the repurposing potentials of smallpox vaccines and drugs in monkeypox outbreaks based on ...
Md. Rabiul Islam +6 more
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Population, sexual and reproductive health, rights and sustainable development: forging a common agenda. [PDF]
This article suggests that sexual and reproductive health and rights activists seeking to influence the post-2015 international development paradigm must work with sustainable development advocates concerned with a range of issues, including climate ...
Campbell, D. M. +11 more
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A vaccinia virus renaissance
In 1796, Edward Jenner introduced the concept of vaccination with cowpox virus, an Orthopoxvirus within the family Poxviridae that elicits cross protective immunity against related orthopoxviruses, including smallpox virus (variola virus).
Paulo H. Verardi +2 more
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Evolution of means and principles of smallpox vaccination
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 +7 more
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