2. Learning from Smallpox (天花): How to Eradicate(根除) a Disease For most of human history, medical workers sought to treat diseases or cure them. The rise of vaccination(疫苗的接种) in the 19th century enhanced the potential to prevent people from contracting(感染) illnesses in the first...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
Vaccines exist for all sorts of diseases, both viral and bacterial: measles, mumps, whooping cough, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, typhoid, etc. Many diseases cannot be cured by vaccines, however. The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or ...
However, like all vaccines, it came with risks of side effects and could cause as many as 50 deaths each year. Should we use it? What Which vaccines out of the 7 different types contain no live pathogens? Can these vaccines cause disease? Explain how...
How did WWI favor the spread of the 1918 Flu strain throughout the world?Question:How did WWI favor the spread of the 1918 Flu strain throughout the world?Viruses:Viruses are dangerous organisms as they require hosts to replicate and multiply. These can cause various forms of infec...
In our own fixed wing operation, we did record a case fatality rate (in-flight death per transport event) of 0.0032% in 5 years (2018-2022, N = 3,119). Singh et al7 reported 12 deaths during 17,868 urgent regional air medical transports. A smaller study on international fixed wing ...
proving to us they're still ignoring the rapidly growing 'death count' that may have also just taken the life of former FOX News Vice President Alan Komisarrof who just 'died suddenly' of a 'cardiac event' at the still-young age of 47, how many more such deaths will we witness before...
Jenner noticed that milkmaids who suffered from the cowpox virus did not contract the much deadlier smallpox virus during local outbreaks. You might be asking ‘when were vaccines invented?’ Well, the first vaccine, made from pus taken from cowpox lesions, was administered to an 8-year-old...
“In 1823, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall wrote a decision remarkable for its candor about a subject we would all generally prefer not to acknowledge: The means by which the United States government, and more broadly EuroAmerican culture, took possession of this continent. By ...
“People don’t understand the concept of community protection, and if they do they don’t seem to care,” said Orenstein, who saw some of the last cases of smallpox as a CDC epidemiologist in India in the 1970s, and frequently cared for children with meningitis caused by H. ...