"On 31 October 1977, the world's last known case of endemic smallpox was discovered in Merca, Somalia. The source of infection was quickly identified; 19 days previously, the male patient had been in contact with two other cases for not more than 15 minutes, but the surveillance activities...
25th anniversary of the last case of naturally acquired smallpox MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly ReportUS Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
On October 26, 1977, the last case of naturally acquired smallpox occurred in the Merca District of Somalia. In May 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally occurring smallpox. The eradication of a disease was an unprecedented accomplishment. Eradication efforts for b...
Discusses issues related to the last case of naturally acquired smallpox in Somalia that occurred on October 26, 1977. Benefits of the eradication of smallpox; Action taken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in preparation for the potential use of smallpox virus as a ...
The world's last known case of smallpox was reported in Somalia, the Horn of Africa, in October 1977. The victim was a young cook called Ali Maow Maalin. His case becomes a landmark in medical history, for smallpox is the first communicable..
In the extracellular pathway the synthesis of metal nanoparticles is carried out either by the secretion of enzymes in the medium or by the polysaccharides and polyphenols compounds in the cells. In the case of metal nanoparticles synthesis, polysaccharide works as capping agents, for example, ...
we can see how obscenely arrogant and wrong religion/truth-haters have been, when, for instance, people like Oxford University’s Professor of Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins, have said that ‘“Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus, ...
We often find it convenient to act as though the capacity to suffer were somehow inseparably bound up with linguistic ability or ratiocinative prowess. Yet there is absolutely no evidence that this is the case, and a great deal that it isn't. The functional regions of the brain which ...
The spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses across Asia in 2003 and 2004 devastated domestic poultry populations and resulted in the large... TR Maines,XH Lu,SM Erb,... - 《Journal of Virology》 被引量: 1948发表: 2005年 Bird flu, influenza and 1918: The case for mutant...
Jenner's epochal use of cowpox to prevent smallpox, discovered in 1798, and Pasteur's use of rabies-infected tissue as a vaccine in 1885, paved the way for the concept of active immunity conferred by injection of infectious material, live or killed, to stimulate the host to 'remember' th...