Smallpoxwas widespread and had a relatively highmortality rate, making it one of the most deadly of all infectious diseases. Its impact on human civilization cannot be overstated. It also represents the only, hopefully the first, human disease to be eradicated (Fig. 54.2). This was made possi...
VARV had a devastating impact on human demographics in the 17th and 18th centuries, causing an estimated 300–500 million deaths, and was finally eradicated in 1980 through a global immunization campaign initiated 200 years earlier by (Theves et al., 2016). According to historical reports and ...
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- 《International Journal of Infectious Diseases Ijid Official Publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 6发表: 2009年 Lessons from the Past - The Smallpox Outbreak in Yugoslavia, an Impact on Public Health and the Economy ObjectivesBetween July 2002 and April 2003...
Recommendation for Using Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination Program : recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) This report supplements the 2001 statement by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) (CDC. Vaccinia [smallpox] vaccine: recommendations...
Reports on the impact of diseases on the family structure and the society. Role of technology, societal attitudes and disease; Analogy of these determining factors; Mankind's eradication of smallpox by inoculation; Information on smallpox and its effect; Examination of Chinese medicine in relation ...
Vaccines were first developed in England over 200 years ago and have made a significant positive impact on human society since. Not often realised is the intimate relationship shared between vaccines and women. Women were key to the initial development of vaccines; some were even advocating the ...
Hence socio-spatial structure has an important impact on transmission dynamics23 (see Box 2), particu- larly for diseases such as smallpox where close contact (for example, Box 1 Epidemics: basic theory Individuals affected by an epidemic move through a number of infection states: Epidemics ...
No illness had a larger impact on the lives of Japanese people in the early modem period than smallpox. Present in Japan since at least the 8th century, in the Tokugawa period smallpox became an inherent part of everyday life. In the face of insufficient medical knowledge, people turned to...
Two reports on the Chinese practice of inoculation were received by the Royal Society in London in 1700: one by Dr. Martin Lister who received a report by an employee of the East India Company stationed in China and another by Clopton Havers.[108] Voltaire (1742) reports that the Chinese ...