Updates to Disaster Management Strategies for CDC Category A Bioterrorism Agents
AbstractPurpose of ReviewThe goal of this paper is to provide current suggestions for a system-based response to a bioterrorism attack and discuss treatment options for CDC category A bioterrorism agents.Recent FindingsVaccines for anthrax andY. pestis are being developed, but they are not rapidly available in the USA. Vaccine distribution methodology for the recent M-pox outbreak was used that the smallpox vaccine could utilize. Two antibody therapies and one vaccine are available for Ebola but not for other viral hemorrhagic fever diseases. Recent health system stressors encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic are likel...
Source: Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports - April 22, 2024 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 620: Antibodies Induced by Smallpox Vaccination after at Least 45 Years Cross-React with and In Vitro Neutralize Mpox Virus: A Role for Polyclonal B Cell Activation?
Conclusions: ELISA and WB performed using supernatant of VV- or MPXV-infected cells are suitable to identify individuals vaccinated against smallpox at more than 45 years from immunization and individuals convalescing from a recent MPXV infection. ELISA and WB results show a good correlation with PRNT. Data confirm that a smallpox vaccination induces a long-lasting memory in terms of specific IgG and that antibodies raised against VV may neutralize MPXV in vitro. Finally, higher titers of VV-specific antibodies and higher frequency of VV-specific memory T cells in LTBI individuals suggest a role of polyclonal non-specific ...
Source: Viruses - April 17, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Sabrina Mariotti Giulietta Venturi Maria Vincenza Chiantore Raffaela Teloni Riccardo De Santis Antonello Amendola Claudia Fortuna Giulia Marsili Giorgia Grilli Maria Stella Lia Seble Tekle Kiros Filippo Lagi Alessandro Bartoloni Angelo Iacobino Raffaele C Tags: Article Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior
This article explores a poorly understood smallpox vaccination campaign targeting Native Americans in the 1830s. While previous scholars have addressed the motivations of U.S. officials in launching the campaign, the author focuses on Indigenous people's interest in disease prevention and their reception of American physicians and vaccine technology across a broad swath of North America. Resistance to vaccination was not uncommon among Native people, yet many were open to the new form of preventive medicine, including some who sought it out and others who demanded it from the government. Departing from a scholarly consensu...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Seth Archer Source Type: research
Wanning Smallpox Vaccination, Decreased Population Immunity Rate and Increased Incidence of Monkeypox: Reappraisal on West African Situation
Dear Editor, In addition to the well ‑known pox infections, new zoonotic pox diseases have emerged, and they are now a global concern. Monkey pox has expanded across Europe as a result of its widespread outbreak, posing a severe public health risk. Monkey pox is an uncommon pox infection that has resurfaced due to zoonosis. International Journal of Preventive Medicine 14():130, December 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_189_22 Corresponding Author: Dr. Rujittika MungmunpuntipantipE ‑mail: rujitika@gmail.comYou can also search for this author in:PubMed Google Scholar (Source: International Journal of Preventive Medicine)
Source: International Journal of Preventive Medicine - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Maintaining the Region of the Americas free of polio: best practices for incident management support teams
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2024 Apr 1;48:e23. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.23. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTThe Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and its Member States have been leading the efforts to eradicate wild poliovirus in the Region of Americas since smallpox's successful elimination in 1971. The region became the first to be certified free of wild poliovirus in 1994. However, in July 2022, an unvaccinated patient with no recent travel history was diagnosed with poliomyelitis in the United States of America. In response to the emergence of a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in the United States, PAHO established t...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - April 2, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Carlos A Emanuele Anne E Jean Baptiste Ana E Ch évez Mirta Magarinos Maite V Antelo Sonia Arza Emilia Cain Gloria Rey-Benito Martha Velandia-Gonzalez Daniel Salas Source Type: research
Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia's coastal north
This article asks what this combination looked like in practice by exploring two neglected smallpox vaccination campaigns directed towards Indigenous peoples in the early twentieth century. We argue these were important campaigns because they were the first two pre-emptive, rather than reactionary, vaccination programs directed towards First Nations people. Second, both episodes occurred in Australia's northern coastline, where the porous maritime geography and proximity to Southeast Asia posed a point of vulnerability for Australian health officials. While smallpox was never endemic, (though epidemic), in Australia, it wa...
Source: Medical History - March 18, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Chi Chi Huang Alison Bashford Source Type: research
