300 years of London smallpox data may offer insight into coronavirus
Researchers from Hamilton, Canada studied thousands of weekly records detailing London's smallpox fatalities during the years 1664 to 1930. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Here ’s What’s Behind Americans’ Uneasy Relationship With Vaccines
Time was, nobody quarreled with the idea of a new vaccine. In 1955, church bells rang and headlines blared when Jonas Salk announced that his new vaccine against polio was safe, effective and powerful. Similar, if more subdued, enthusiasm greeted the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963 and the global eradication of smallpox in 1980. But we live in a more suspicious and cynical time.
Even as the world has desperately awaited the development of the recently introduced COVID-19 vaccines, only 70% of Americans say they will take them, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Fewer than half of Americans rec...
Source: TIME: Health - December 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month
When a single case of smallpox arrived in Manhattan in 1947, a severe outbreak was possible. A decisive civil servant made a bold decision. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Smallpox Epidemics Advertising Council ' Dwyer, William New York City Weinstein, Israel Content Type: Personal Profile Source Type: news
Chimerix Announces FDA Acceptance of New Drug Application for Brincidofovir as a Medical Countermeasure for Smallpox
DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chimerix (NASDAQ:CMRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on accelerating the development of medicines to treat cancer and other serious diseases, today announced that the U.S.... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications - December 7, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Misinformation on Social Media Fuels Vaccine Hesitancy: a Global Study Shows the Link
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Vaccines Are Coming, but Pandemic Experts Expect a'Horrible' Winter
With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.” (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald G. McNeil Jr. Tags: Presidential Transition (US) Presidential Election of 2020 Clinical Trials Smallpox Vaccination and Immunization Medicine and Health Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Governors (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention AstraZeneca PLC Eli Source Type: news
Tales From The Vaccine Vault: 30 Facts About Smallpox And The Coronavirus
If the coronavirus caused scars like smallpox did, people who can ’t be bothered with social distancing might be more careful. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - November 20, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rebecca Coffey, Contributor Tags: Science /science Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Coronavirus Source Type: news
The Daily Mail has turned against the anti-vaxxers it used to champion | Polly Toynbee
As the paper lends its support to a Covid vaccine, don ’t expect any acknowledgement of the damage it did over MMRAnti-vaxxers are as old as the very first vaccine. Edward Jenner, who saved the world from the scourge of smallpox, facedferocious opposition.When Prince Albert unveiled a posthumous statue to him inTrafalgar Square in 1858, it was met withvirulent opposition from anti-vaxxers, backed by the military who regarded Trafalgar Square plinths as exclusively theirs.Pulling down statues is nothing new or “woke”. The Times called for Jenner’s to be removed and within a year of Albert’s death in 1861 it was sh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Polly Toynbee Tags: Coronavirus Vaccines and immunisation Daily Mail Health Infectious diseases Media Medical research National newspapers & magazines Science Society World news Paul Dacre Source Type: news
The Covid Pandemic: Broadening the Discourse
Thailand’s COVID-19 response an example of resilience and solidarity: a UN Resident Coordinator’s BlogBy Asoka BandarageCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov 10 2020 (IPS) SARS-CoV-2, the corona virus that causes COVID-19, has been spreading exponentially across the world over the last ten or so months. As of November 6th, according to the Center for Systems Science at Johns Hopkins University, there have been 49,195,581 cases of COVID-19, including 1,241,031 deaths.
More than a third of the global population has been placed on lockdown. The global economy is experiencing the deepest global recession since World War 2 and massive n...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Asoka Bandarage Tags: Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Peace TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Epidemiologist Who Helped Eradicate Smallpox Dies
J. Michael Lane was the director of the CDC's successful program to eradicate smallpox. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - October 28, 2020 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
J. Michael Lane, a General in the Rout of Smallpox, Dies at 84
At the C.D.C., he waged a 13-year campaign to vanquish a deadly infectious disease that had ravaged the world for centuries. Victory came in 1977. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert D. McFadden Tags: Deaths (Obituaries) Smallpox Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Health Organization Vaccination and Immunization Lane, J Michael (1936-2020) Doctors Source Type: news
Scientists to Infect Volunteers With COVID - 19 in Challenge Trial
Challenge trials have long history, going back to development of smallpox vaccine in 1796 (Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge)
Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge - October 21, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Family Medicine, Gynecology, Infections, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Pathology, Pharmacy, Pulmonology, Institutional, Source Type: news
U.K. Plans ‘Challenge Trials,’ Which Will Intentionally Give People COVID-19 to Test Vaccines
On Oct. 20, researchers at the Imperial College of London announced plans for the first human challenge study of COVID-19, which involves deliberately infecting volunteers with the virus that causes the disease, in order to test the effectiveness of vaccines.
The strategy is controversial, as researchers have to weigh the risks of infection against the benefits of learning how well the various vaccine candidates can fight that infection. The strongest argument in favor of the studies has to do with time. If cases of COVID-19 are waning, then the likelihood that people who are vaccinated would get exposed to and potentially...
Source: TIME: Science - October 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
U.K. Plans ‘Challenge Trials,’ Which Will Intentionally Give People COVID-19 to Test Vaccines
On Oct. 20, researchers at the Imperial College of London announced plans for the first human challenge study of COVID-19, which involves deliberately infecting volunteers with the virus that causes the disease, in order to test the effectiveness of vaccines.
The strategy is controversial, as researchers have to weigh the risks of infection against the benefits of learning how well the various vaccine candidates can fight that infection. The strongest argument in favor of the studies has to do with time. If cases of COVID-19 are waning, then the likelihood that people who are vaccinated would get exposed to and potentially...
Source: TIME: Health - October 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
How do pandemics end? In different ways, but it ’s never quick and never neat | Mark Honigsbaum
Just like the Black Death, influenza and smallpox, Covid-19 will affect almost every aspect of our of lives – even after a vaccine turns upOn 7 September 1854, in the middle of a raging cholera epidemic, the physician John Snow approached the board of guardians of St James ’s parish for permission toremove the handle from a public water pump in Broad Street in London ’s Soho. Snow observed that 61 victims of the cholera had recently drawn water from the pump and reasoned that contaminated water was the source of the epidemic. His request was granted and, even though it would take a further 30 years for the germ theor...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 18, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science Cholera Health Society UK news Source Type: news
