Despite its profound historical importance, little is known of the origins and diversity of the viruses used in smallpox vaccination. Prior to the twentieth century, the method, source and origin of smallpox vaccinations remained unstandardised and opaque. We reconstruct and analyse viral vaccine ...
Smallpox is caused by a virus that may be airborne or spread by direct contact. After an incubation period of about two weeks, fever, aching, and prostration occur, lasting two or three days. An eruption then appears and spreads over the entire body; the lesions become blisterlike and pust...
12 The name chickenpox was used by the English physician Richard Morton (1637-1698), who characterized it as a mild form of smallpox.12 There are several theories about the origin of the term chickenpox. One theory, suggested by the British physician Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) in 1730, is...
This book, first published as Princess and Peasants, is a comprehensive account of the role of smallpox in human history and how it shaped the course of world events. The eight chapters cover topics ranging from tracing the origin of the disease from the earliest times until its recent eradic...
Evaluating plague and smallpox as historical selective pressures for the CCR5-A32 HIV-resistaflce allele. 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 38 作者:Galvani,Alison,P.,Slatkin,Montgomery 摘要: The high frequency recent origin, and geographic distribution of the CCR5-Δ32 deletion allele together indicate ...
"On the origin of smallpox: correlating variola phylogenics with historical smallpox records". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (40): 15787–92. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10415787L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609268104. PMC 2000395. PMID 17901212. ^ a ...
Covers the background, history and origin of smallpox, and brings the story up to the present day Gives full and interesting details of Jenner's life, and tells how this humble country doctor brought about a revolution in vaccination
Arita, I. 1975: Epidemiology of smallpox and the global smallpox eradication programme Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen 37(9): 563-571 Li, Y.; Carroll, D.S.; Gardner, S.N.; Walsh, M.C.; Vitalis, E.A.; Damon, I.K. 2007: On the origin of smallpox: correlating variola phylogenic...
The Origin of the Variola Virus The question of the origin of smallpox, one of the major menaces to humankind, is a constant concern for the scientific community. Smallpox is caused by th... I Babkin,I Babkina - 《Viruses》 被引量: 7发表: 2015年 Differential diagnosis of exanthematous...
Lewis Cass, to provide aid. In a letter to President Jackson, he wrote, "In 1831, some of the white men… under the influence of a disposition, which it would seem had its origin in a world worse than ours, conceived the design of communicating the small-pox (sic) to those remote ...