This chapter outlines the history of primatological knowledge that is generated largely from behavioral and biomedical investigators working independently. The modern use of nonhuman primates in biomedical research has its origin in Pasteur's work with rabies, and the studies of others with smallpox ...
Prior to vaccination with cowpox, the only known protection against smallpox wasinoculationorvariolation(Variola - the Smallpox viruses) where a small amount of live smallpox virus was administered to the patient; this carried the serious risk that with too high a dose the patient would be kil...
On one hand, the immunogenicity of the vector is diminished in individuals who have been previously vaccinated against smallpox. But more importantly, the use of replicating vaccinia was contraindicated in immunosuppressed individuals, where its administration could cause severe disease [35], [63]. ...
As one of the leading proponents of vaccination, the man who infamously stated that babies can safely receive 100,000 vaccines at once, one would expect Dr. Paul Offit to go along with and promote the CDC-sponsored COVID-19 story of “impending apocalypse.” But Offit recently posted a s...
of smallpox and diphtheria, and virtual elimination of polio. Were my claims also based on junk data? If so, I’d appreciate being directed to the data that belie these facts and demonstrate that, in point of fact, vaccines kill. Maybe the man with the sign has an acquaintance who got...
Eighteen days doesn’t sound like a long time, but in the world of infectious diseases, it can be the different between life and death. According to The Rapid Syndrome Validation Project, a delay of even one day in detecting certain diseases like smallpox could mean the "…difference ...
adequately prepared for the next emerging virus. There are currently 23 families and 219 species of viruses that infect humans, with three to four new species being identified each year.1This number accounts for only a small portion of the total number of viruses, which is actually far greater...
Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth‐century cities—a reply to Razzell Top of pageI II III IV Footnote references Official publications Smallpox was probably the single most lethal disease in eighteenth-century Britain but was... RJ Davenport,J Boulton,L Schwarz...
Smallpox is generally considered the most dangerous pathogen of the Columbian Exchange. Kelton acknowledges that smallpox first came to the Spanish missions in Florida and Georgia, but asserts that these epidemics were limited to the mission system. Native North Americans did not have the population...
Smallpox killed countless millions—300 million people in the 20th century alone—before it was finally declared eradicated on May 8 1980. It was a momentous day, marking what the current director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adha