Smallpox - Life Science Academy
... Health Information for a Healthy New York, 2011). • World Health Organization declared it eradicated in 1979 and now considered a weapon that can be intentionally released for bioterrorist attacks (Department of Health Information for a Healthy New York, 2011). ...
... Health Information for a Healthy New York, 2011). • World Health Organization declared it eradicated in 1979 and now considered a weapon that can be intentionally released for bioterrorist attacks (Department of Health Information for a Healthy New York, 2011). ...
What could have caused this?
... How was the first Vaccine developed? English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox, a relatively mild affliction, didn't come down with smallpox, Jenner intentionally infected an eightyear-ol ...
... How was the first Vaccine developed? English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation against smallpox in 1796. Armed with the knowledge that milkmaids who had been exposed to cowpox, a relatively mild affliction, didn't come down with smallpox, Jenner intentionally infected an eightyear-ol ...
Nature of The Immune System
... reaction of a host when foreign substances are introduced into the body. Antigen is the substance recognized as foreign to the body which causes an immune response. Immunity is the condition of being resistant to infection. Serology is the study of the non-cellular components (serum) in the bl ...
... reaction of a host when foreign substances are introduced into the body. Antigen is the substance recognized as foreign to the body which causes an immune response. Immunity is the condition of being resistant to infection. Serology is the study of the non-cellular components (serum) in the bl ...
- LSE Research Online
... However, despite the sometimes rather overwhelming detail in terms of lists of names and the various vaccines to which they are attached, the second half of the book is much more mixed than the first in terms of having some science and some personalities, and it does not tell the story quite so clea ...
... However, despite the sometimes rather overwhelming detail in terms of lists of names and the various vaccines to which they are attached, the second half of the book is much more mixed than the first in terms of having some science and some personalities, and it does not tell the story quite so clea ...
Modern Science vs. Infectious Disease
... Modern Medicine • Although modern medicine has its roots in the early modern period, it was not really until the last third of the 19th century that an understanding of infectious disease could be grounded in empirical proof • From that time to the second half of the 20th century there was a growin ...
... Modern Medicine • Although modern medicine has its roots in the early modern period, it was not really until the last third of the 19th century that an understanding of infectious disease could be grounded in empirical proof • From that time to the second half of the 20th century there was a growin ...
New World Encounters
... • Early humans who had migrated to what is now the Americas were cut off from Eurasia around 14,000 years ago – effectively isolating themselves from the disease cycle of the ‘Old World’ • Recall that the cycle of infectious disease in the ‘Old World’ was the result of the creation of mass civilizat ...
... • Early humans who had migrated to what is now the Americas were cut off from Eurasia around 14,000 years ago – effectively isolating themselves from the disease cycle of the ‘Old World’ • Recall that the cycle of infectious disease in the ‘Old World’ was the result of the creation of mass civilizat ...
SAT smallpox questions
... Clearly, if smallpox had not come when it did, the Spanish victory could not have been achieved in Mexico. The same was true of [Francisco] Pizarro’s filibuster into Peru. For the smallpox epidemic in Mexico did not confine its ravages to ...
... Clearly, if smallpox had not come when it did, the Spanish victory could not have been achieved in Mexico. The same was true of [Francisco] Pizarro’s filibuster into Peru. For the smallpox epidemic in Mexico did not confine its ravages to ...
Smallpox (Variola)
... • Scars remain where pustules were • Most gone after 3 weeks • Person still contagious until all pustules have fallen off • Person develops long-term immunity to virus ...
... • Scars remain where pustules were • Most gone after 3 weeks • Person still contagious until all pustules have fallen off • Person develops long-term immunity to virus ...
Slide 1
... As Jenner had predicted, many of the people he had injected with cowpox never experienced smallpox even when they were exposed to the virus. They had become immune to it. We know now that cowpox and smallpox are produced by two very similar viruses. ...
... As Jenner had predicted, many of the people he had injected with cowpox never experienced smallpox even when they were exposed to the virus. They had become immune to it. We know now that cowpox and smallpox are produced by two very similar viruses. ...
Infectious Diseases and Society, Exam II Name: Spring, 2008 The
... smallpox______34) ____________ was deliberately used by the British to try and infect besieging American Indians during the siege of Fort Pitt. Part II. Matching (2 pts. each): There is only one correct answer for each question, but answers can be used more than once. p___35) Can be caused by over 2 ...
... smallpox______34) ____________ was deliberately used by the British to try and infect besieging American Indians during the siege of Fort Pitt. Part II. Matching (2 pts. each): There is only one correct answer for each question, but answers can be used more than once. p___35) Can be caused by over 2 ...
Summary of CDC guidance on Quarantine and Vaccinatio
... o Vaccinating and monitoring a “ring” of people around each case protects those at greatest risk and creates a buffer of immune individuals to prevent disease spread o This strategy is more desirable than an indiscriminate mass vaccination for a number of reasons (listed in source) o The determinati ...
... o Vaccinating and monitoring a “ring” of people around each case protects those at greatest risk and creates a buffer of immune individuals to prevent disease spread o This strategy is more desirable than an indiscriminate mass vaccination for a number of reasons (listed in source) o The determinati ...
Math 210G Mathematics Appreciation Dr. Robert Smits
... Seventh: 1961- 1970, and some would argue that we are in the Eighth: 1991 to the present. Each pandemic, save the last, was accompanied by many thousands of deaths. As recently as 1947, 20,500 of 30,000 people infected in Egypt died. Despite modern medicine, cholera remains an efficient killer. ...
... Seventh: 1961- 1970, and some would argue that we are in the Eighth: 1991 to the present. Each pandemic, save the last, was accompanied by many thousands of deaths. As recently as 1947, 20,500 of 30,000 people infected in Egypt died. Despite modern medicine, cholera remains an efficient killer. ...
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... • Cholera; Darkfield and Phase contrast microscopes and culture. IV therapy for vomiting, losing greater than 7 liters a day, and shock. Killed vaccine that only protects for 6 months. Bactrim, Doxy, and TMP/SMX. • Pssitacosis(Parrot fever) 1-2 weeks incubation aerosolized dried droppings, aerosol a ...
... • Cholera; Darkfield and Phase contrast microscopes and culture. IV therapy for vomiting, losing greater than 7 liters a day, and shock. Killed vaccine that only protects for 6 months. Bactrim, Doxy, and TMP/SMX. • Pssitacosis(Parrot fever) 1-2 weeks incubation aerosolized dried droppings, aerosol a ...
Biowarfare Agents that are WMD feasible
... these can be bought off the shelf for a few hundred dollars per copy which make PAPRs as a control as less reliable precursor. Technical hurdles towards the weaponization process include machining the agent into an aerosol. This process requires the scientist to have a refined machining capability t ...
... these can be bought off the shelf for a few hundred dollars per copy which make PAPRs as a control as less reliable precursor. Technical hurdles towards the weaponization process include machining the agent into an aerosol. This process requires the scientist to have a refined machining capability t ...
Molluscum Contagiosum
... • Vaccinia has a broad host range that includes rabbits and mice. • At some time after Jenner’s original use of “cowpox” virus, the vaccine virus became “vaccinia virus”. • Vaccinia virus is unique in that it is an ‘artificial virus’ and does not occur in nature as such. • It may be the product of g ...
... • Vaccinia has a broad host range that includes rabbits and mice. • At some time after Jenner’s original use of “cowpox” virus, the vaccine virus became “vaccinia virus”. • Vaccinia virus is unique in that it is an ‘artificial virus’ and does not occur in nature as such. • It may be the product of g ...
Human-Human interaction: epidemiology
... overall health status of a given population. In most countries of the world, publichealth authorities regularly gather epidemiological data on specific diseases and mortality rates in their populaces2. Main field of their studies focus on noninteracting systems. Most of knowledge came from analytic ...
... overall health status of a given population. In most countries of the world, publichealth authorities regularly gather epidemiological data on specific diseases and mortality rates in their populaces2. Main field of their studies focus on noninteracting systems. Most of knowledge came from analytic ...
Dynamics and Control of Infectious Diseases
... Lethality: about 30% (depending on many factors, some types > 98%) Long incubation period: about 2-3 weeks (possibility of localized control measures) ...
... Lethality: about 30% (depending on many factors, some types > 98%) Long incubation period: about 2-3 weeks (possibility of localized control measures) ...
December 2008 - NWMOinfo.org
... “common good.” In 1905, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that the need to protect the public health through compulsory smallpox vaccination outweighed the individual’s right to privacy. Barring exceptions for religious belief, which exist in all but two U.S. sta ...
... “common good.” In 1905, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that the need to protect the public health through compulsory smallpox vaccination outweighed the individual’s right to privacy. Barring exceptions for religious belief, which exist in all but two U.S. sta ...
Vaccines - Quest Garden
... and are therefore considered to be safe for use in immunocompromised patients. A third way of making a vaccine is to "attenuate" or weaken a live microorganism by aging it or altering its growth conditions. Vaccines made in this way are often the most successful vaccines, probably because they multi ...
... and are therefore considered to be safe for use in immunocompromised patients. A third way of making a vaccine is to "attenuate" or weaken a live microorganism by aging it or altering its growth conditions. Vaccines made in this way are often the most successful vaccines, probably because they multi ...
Isolation and Quarantine Measures in Response
... – Monitor for 2 successive fevers > 101 º F (38.5C) – Travel restrictions during surveillance period for symptoms (incubation period) – No special ventilation requirements – All in home must be vaccinated – Household members with contraindications to vaccination should stay outside of home during su ...
... – Monitor for 2 successive fevers > 101 º F (38.5C) – Travel restrictions during surveillance period for symptoms (incubation period) – No special ventilation requirements – All in home must be vaccinated – Household members with contraindications to vaccination should stay outside of home during su ...
PowerPoint
... – Monitor for 2 successive fevers > 101 º F (38.5C) – Travel restrictions during surveillance period for symptoms (incubation period) – No special ventilation requirements – All in home must be vaccinated – Household members with contraindications to vaccination should stay outside of home during su ...
... – Monitor for 2 successive fevers > 101 º F (38.5C) – Travel restrictions during surveillance period for symptoms (incubation period) – No special ventilation requirements – All in home must be vaccinated – Household members with contraindications to vaccination should stay outside of home during su ...
anthrax as a biological weapon
... and microbiology of smallpox 2) To be able to recognize clinical smallpox 3) To be able control the secondary transmission of smallpox 4) To describe treatment and vaccination options for smallpox. ...
... and microbiology of smallpox 2) To be able to recognize clinical smallpox 3) To be able control the secondary transmission of smallpox 4) To describe treatment and vaccination options for smallpox. ...
Infectious Agents as a Security Challenge: Experience of Typhus
... time when the Spanish conquistadors conquered the New World, smallpox was used as a strong BW against the powerful empires of the Aztecs and Incas. When Hernan Cortes and his expedition landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519, aboard their boats were the goods infected with smallpox. The epidemic brok ...
... time when the Spanish conquistadors conquered the New World, smallpox was used as a strong BW against the powerful empires of the Aztecs and Incas. When Hernan Cortes and his expedition landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519, aboard their boats were the goods infected with smallpox. The epidemic brok ...
