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The World Health Organization's Reform After COVID‐19: Between Old Habits and a New Normal

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic subjected the World Health Organization (WHO) to its sternest test. While the rationale for its existence became clearer than ever, widespread criticism of its pandemic response eroded its standing, already compromised by previous health emergencies and a highly competitive global health landscape.
Óscar Fernández
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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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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Phase-out of smallpox vaccination and the female/male HIV-1 prevalence ratio: an ecological study from Guinea-Bissau

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective In Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, we observed that having a smallpox vaccination scar was associated with lower HIV-1 prevalence, more strongly for women than men.
Marie Villumsen, Peter Aaby, Amabelia Rodrigues, Andreas Rieckmann, Christine Benn, Bo Langhoff Hønge, Signe Sørup, Zacarias Jose da Silva, Hilton Whittle   +8 more
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Vaccinia virus-based vector against infectious diseases and tumors

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Vaccinia virus was used to prevent smallpox. After the World Health Organization declared smallpox extinct, vaccinia virus has been explored for the development of vaccines against a variety of infectious diseases.
Ziling Zhang, Lanlan Dong, Chen Zhao, Peiyong Zheng, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jianqing Xu   +5 more
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“Justifying Military Conscription”

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that wartime military conscription can be justified only if potential conscripts have duties to enlist, or duties to participate in an enlistment lottery, that conscription forces them to discharge. I explore whether our interpersonal duties to rescue can ground a duty to enlist.
Helen Frowe
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic and Prophylactic Agents for Viral Diseases: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects

MedComm, Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2026.
This review summarizes current therapeutic and prophylactic strategies for global viral diseases, including vaccines, PrEP, direct‐acting antivirals, and emerging modalities such as CRISPR and siRNA. It highlights their clinical impact, ongoing challenges, and future priorities toward broader protection, improved delivery, and more effective antiviral ...
Sawar Khan, Ayesha Nisar, Xiaoxu Li, Hao Yu, Abdul Qadeer, Sardar Azhar Mehmood, Imane Lamraoui, Sijie Liu, Lipeng Zhu, Xu Deng, Bo Kong, Kejun Zhong, Zanxian Xia   +12 more
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Approaches to Reduce Adverse Effect of Vaccinia Virus in Orally Immunized Mice

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2016
Objective of the investigation was to model the adverse action of vaccinia virus (VV), caused by oral immunization of mice and to evaluate efficacy of its reduction, using therapeutic and prophylactic drugs. Materials and methods.
D. O. Galakhova, Ar. A. Sergeev, E. V. Shevtsova, Al. A. Sergeev, A. S. Zamedyanskaya, K. A. Titova, L. N. Shishkina, L. E. Bulychev, S. V. Borisevich, V. N. Podkuiko, A. P. Pirozhkov, A. V. Koval’Chuk, Ya. V. Polyansky, E. Yu. Vakhnov, V. V. Perekrest, V. A. Shevtsov, A. P. Agafonov, A. N. Sergeev   +17 more
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Vaccinations During Pregnancy Protect the Mother–Infant Dyad and Are Generally Safe

Acta Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 11, Page 2380-2388, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim Vaccination in pregnancy has a critical impact on mothers, foetuses and infants. The aim of this paper was to summarise key points presented by experts attending the 12th Maria Delivoria‐Papadopoulos Perinatal Symposium in March 2025 and further expand and update them.
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner, Despina D. Briana, Gian Carlo Di Renzo   +2 more
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Serological Immunity to Smallpox in New South Wales, Australia

Viruses, 2020
The re-emergence of smallpox is an increasing and legitimate concern due to advances in synthetic biology. Vaccination programs against smallpox using the vaccinia virus vaccine ceased with the eradication of smallpox and, unlike many other countries ...
Valentina Costantino, Mallory J. Trent, John S. Sullivan, Mohana P. Kunasekaran, Richard Gray, Raina MacIntyre   +5 more
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