Influenza A H1N1 caused the ‘Spanish flu’ in 1918, subtype H2N2 (‘Asian flu’) was the causative agent of the 1957 pandemic and the H3N2 subtype (‘Hong Kong flu’) caused a pandemic in 1968. The excess mort
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Racism and Health The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified racism, or rather the norms that produce and normalize racial inequities, “a fundamental driver of racial and ethnic health disparities” [52,53]. Racism, both interpersonal (e.g., racist biases that occur among ...
During an emerging pandemic outbreak of an infectious disease, it is essential to know the level of transmission and the contagiousness which can be estimated by “R naught” (R0), a mathematical term which is the basic reproduction number that determines the average number secondary cases who ar...
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In addition, WHO recommends isolation and vaccination for livestock in response to an outbreak of disease and prophylactic vaccination in areas where anthrax is enzootic, as well as makes recommendations for responding to anthrax when used in a bioterrorist event, such as the one that occurred in ...
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