In the United States, in 2003, an outbreak of monkeypox was associated with pet prairie dogs. By the end of the outbreak, the CDC reported 47 cases (37 confirmed and an additional 10 probable human cases). The cases were relatively mild (no deaths) but the outbreak prompted a significant...
The disease was clinically similar to smallpox, and sporadic cases were reported from Central and Western Africa, all areas in which no smallpox had been reported for more than 1 year. Monkeypox has largely been a disease confined to Central and West Africa, occurring in intermittent outbreaks...
Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, and no cases have happened since 1977. Scientists keep a small amount of the smallpox virus alive under tightly controlled conditions in the U.S. and Russia for medical research. In the event of another smallpox outbreak, governments around the world have smal...
This was proven in a hospital building in Meschede, Germany, where a total of 17 smallpox cases were infected by virus particles disseminated by air over a considerable distance [2]. Usually, the virus enters the body by the inhalation of microdroplets shed from the respiratory tract of ...
Ordinary type-confluent is fatal about 50–75% of the time, ordinary-type semi-confluent about 25–50% of the time, in cases where the rash is discrete the case-fatality rate is less than 10%. The overall fatality rate for children younger than 1 year of age is 40–50%. Hemorrhagic ...
In 18th century Europe, a third of all reported cases of blindness were due to smallpox. Today, aging-related disease is the leading cause of blindness.40-42 Smallpox is now eradicated. No one would have thought that possible during the thousands of years when smallpox outbreaks decimated ...
We describe 2 cases of healthcare-associated Legionnaires' disease in patients in France hospitalized 5 months apart in the same room. Whole-genome sequenc... J Couturier,C Ginevra,D Nesa,... - 《Emerging Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 Response to Vanhove et al. and Colella...
first and second year osteopathic medical students were asked to transform together clinical cases into case reports to challenge their clinical understanding and better understand how case reports can drive larger research topics.Approach: The broader concern is in the event of a need to vaccinate a...
, and pleasure took a back seat to the rebuilding which eventually pushed the disease into the background where it has mostly existed since that time – the infection rate today is roughly7 recorded casesin the US. Worldwide, the worse years have observed, at most, 2000 cases per year....
Even though his case was relatively mild, he would still have been bedridden for weeks, rocked by high fevers and chills, severe body aches, a twisted stomach and the telltale oozing rash. Washington was lucky to escape with his life and few visible scars. In really bad cases, individual...