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
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
Vaccine Development
This article considers ethical considerations surrounding pediatric vaccine development for pandemic preparedness, examines some historical cases of pediatric vaccines developed during past smallpox, influenza, and 2019 coronavirus disease pandemics, and discusses the current state of vaccine development for pandemic preparedness, including vaccines against smallpox/mpox, influenza, anthrax, and Ebola that are included in the US Strategic National Stockpile and vaccines being developed against priority pathogens identified by the World Health Organization. (Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America)
Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America - March 12, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Elizabeth A.D. Hammershaimb, James D. Campbell Source Type: research
Navigating resistance in global health governance: Certification of smallpox eradication in China
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2024 . (Source: Global Public Health)
Source: Global Public Health - March 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lu ChenWellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health & Department of History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK Source Type: research
Role of vaccination in patients with human monkeypox virus and its cardiovascular manifestations
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2024 Jan 4;86(3):1506-1516. doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000001674. eCollection 2024 Mar.ABSTRACTHuman monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), is an emerging infectious disease with the potential for human-to-human transmission and diverse clinical presentations. While generally considered milder than smallpox, it can lead to severe cardiovascular complications. The virus primarily spreads through contact with infected animals or through human-to-human transmission. Cardiovascular involvement in human monkeypox is rare but has been associated with myocarditis, pericarditis, arrhythmias, and even fu...
Source: Annals of Medicine - March 11, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Khawaja Usama Maqbool Muhammad Talha Akhtar Shayan Ayub Fnu Simran Jahanzeb Malik Maria Malik Rafia Zubair Amin Mehmoodi Source Type: research
For Exposed and Deserted Young Children: Research at the London Foundling Hospital
Neonatology. 2024 Mar 1:1-8. doi: 10.1159/000536421. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Little is known about research in Foundling Hospitals during the 18th century.SUMMARY: The London "Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children" opened in 1741, after fundraising by the former shipmaster Thomas Coram and a Charter by King George II. From 1741 to 1756, fewer than 100 infants a year were admitted by lot. With onset of the Seven Years' War in 1756, the House of Commons resolved and financed the admission of all deserted babies. The number of admitted babies rose to 4,000 per year...
Source: Neonatology - March 3, 2024 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Michael Obladen Source Type: research
