Book Review of Heather McCrea, Diseased Relations: Epidemic, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 [PDF]
, 2012 Diseased Relations is an impressive work succinct in its focus on the topic of public health history in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Adding to a growing body of scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book offers a new lens ...
Quezada-Grant, Autumn L, Dr
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The Effectiveness of California Assembly Bill 2109: Personal Belief Exemptions for Kindergarten Immunizations [PDF]
, 2016 The numbers of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in the United States has declined with the development, administration, and effectiveness of vaccines during the 1970s and 1980s.
Goishi-Bessey, Lilli Shizuka
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Longitudinal Analysis of Antibody Responses to Trachoma Antigens Before and After Mass Drug Administration. [PDF]
, 2014 Blinding trachoma, caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis, is a neglected tropical disease targeted for elimination by 2020. A major component of the elimination strategy is mass drug administration (MDA) with azithromycin.
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Smallpox and Bioterrorism: Why the Plan to Protect the Nation Is Stalled and What to Do [PDF]
, 2003 The Iraq war is over, no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have yet been found, and the president's smallpox plan, though sound, is running out of steam. Instead of being well on the way to protecting the nation's civilian population by vaccinating up to
Kenneth D. Bloem, William J. Bicknell
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When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far are Limitations on Personal and Ecomonic Liberties Justified [PDF]
, 2003 The government is engaged in a homeland-security project to safeguard the population\u27s health from potential terrorist attacks. This project is politically charged because it affords the state enhanced powers to restrict personal and economic ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Modern Mandatory School Vaccination Laws [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of post-neonatal childhood health on adult educational attainment using evidence from mandatory school vaccination laws in the U.S.
Dara N. Lee
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Deliberate Extinction: Whether to Destroy the Last Smallpox Virus [PDF]
, 2004 The target problem to be examined is smallpox. Specifically, what should we (the United States and the entire world) now do with the last known residual samples of the virus that causes this uniquely horrific disease?
Koplow, David A.
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Evaluation of Two Kinds of Smallpox Vaccine: CVI-78 and Calf Lymph Vaccine: I. Clinical and Serologic Response to Primary Vaccination [PDF]
, 1975 Richard B Wesley +4 more
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