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A Global Health Alert on the Re-Emergence of Mpox a Viral Zoonotic Illness Its Prevention and Management: A Narrative Review. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is gaining attention in the global health community due to its potential for human transmission and similarities to the well‐known smallpox virus. Mpox was first detected in the 1970s and mostly affects Central and West Africa.
Aqeel MB, Hanif A, Ahmad S, Shah FI, Javed B, Javed B, Iqbal S.   +6 more
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A Case of Cowpox Presenting as Progressive Unilateral Facial Swelling and Fever Without Any Skin Lesions. [PDF]

Case Rep Infect Dis
Introduction Although a rare infection, sporadic human cases of cowpox do occur in endemic areas, often through contact with an infected cat. Cats are also incidental hosts but provide an important intermediary to the animal reservoir for cowpox, which in the United Kingdom (UK) includes bank and field voles. Case Discussion We present a case of cowpox
Toovey OTR, Wooding SC, Belfield A, Furneaux J, Eisenhauer N, Rampling T.   +5 more
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Cameras or Divers? How Baited Remote Underwater Videos and 'Long Swims' Underwater Visual Census Complement Each Other on Coral Reefs. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study compares baited remote underwater videos (BRUV) and a rapid timed long swim (LS) UVC method to evaluate their ability in assessing relative abundance and diversity of large predatory reef fish from nine selected families. BRUVs were more effective in detecting mobile and bait‐attracted taxa such as Carangidae and recorded up to 28 unique ...
Osuka-Edeye K, Samoilys M, Stewart BD, McClean CJ, Musembi P, Yahya S.   +5 more
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Sementes contra a varíola: Joaquim Vás e a tradução científica das pevides de bananeira brava em Goa, Índia (1894-1930) Seeds against smallpox: Joaquim Vás and the scientific translation of bananeira brava seeds in Goa, India (1894-1930)

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004
Em 1914, em Goa, antiga colônia portuguesa na Índia, o médico António Joaquim Vás anunciou a descoberta de um fabuloso tratamento contra a varíola: a aplicação clínica das pevides, ou sementes, de bananeira brava, medicamento de origem vegetal extraído ...
Ricardo Roque
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Avaliação de fungicidas no controle de Asperisporium caricae na cultura do mamoeiro

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2011
Dentre as doenças fúngicas do mamoeiro, a varíola (Asperisporium caricae) é umas das doenças mais importantes. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram avaliar a eficácia de fungicidas no controle da varíola em folhas e frutos do mamoeiro.
Lívia Felício Barreto, Paulo Alberto Legori Savan, Lonjoré Leocadio de Lima, Bruno Nascimento Lodo   +3 more
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Swinepox dermatitis in backyard pigs in Northeastern Brazil

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2016
: This article describes five outbreaks of swinepox in backyard pigs in Northeastern Brazil. It affected backyard pigs from herds of poor hygienic-sanitary conditions with severe fly and lice infestations.
Roberio G. Olinda, Lisanka A. Maia, Juliana F. Cargnelutti, Rayr C.S. Gois, Jael S. Batista, Antônio F.M. Dantas, Eduardo F. Flores, Franklin Riet-Correa   +7 more
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O sentido da vacina ou quando o prever é um dever The meaning of vaccine or when predicting is a duty

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 1996
Partindo da historiografia, analisamos a construção do monumento da medicina científica: a vacina antivariólica. Ao criar e difundir a vacina, a medicina demonstra como a técnica controla a vicia em escala planetária.
Myriam Bahia Lopes
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Vaccine Development against Infectious Diseases: State of the Art, New Insights, and Future Directions

Vaccines, 2023
In the 18th century, English physician Edward Jenner laid the foundation for modern vaccination by achieving protection against variola [...]
Fatima Conceição Silva, Paula Mello De Luca, Josué da Costa Lima-Junior   +2 more
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The Virus of Dissolution:

Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2022
Goran Marković's Variola Vera (1982, Yugoslavia) is a film about a historic smallpox outbreak, which occurred in Yugoslavia in 1972.  More importantly, it is a film about Yugoslav fear: a fear of the other, especially the oriental or Muslim other and ...
Miranda Jakiša
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Between the Real and the Imagined: Variola Vera Epidemic in the Area of Yugoslavia Through Film Narrative

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2019
The ideas about the epidemics of infectious diseases, both imagined and those that are known to human societies, are becoming more frequent topic of popular culture, that is the film industry.
Marina Mandić
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