JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association November 23/30, 2011, Vol 306, No. 20, pp 2187-2283 James J. Sejvar, MD; Robert J. Labutta, MD; Louisa E. Chapman, MD, MPH; John D. Grabenstein, PhD, RPh; John Iskander, MD, MPH; J. Michael Lane, MD, MPH Author Affiliations: Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious […]
Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal
By David Willman, Los Angeles Times A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether […]
Ridding the world of a terrible virus
Source: The Hindu In 1977, a 23-year-old cook at a hospital in Somalia who caught smallpox and survived became the last naturally occurring case of the disease. Three years later, in May 1980, the World Health Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the World Health Organisation, declared that “the world and all its people have […]
Smallpox, still alive and kicking – and will be for another three years
By Periscope On Tuesday, global health officials from the WHO delayed the destruction of smallpox for at least another three years. The best or worst idea ever? After more than 300 million people died from smallpox in the 20 century alone, the virus was finally “eradicated” in 1979. Samples of the virus, however, are still alive […]
News of Smallpox Outbreak in India Raises Fear
By Christina England Early this week news began to break of an outbreak of smallpox in Jharkhand India. Three people in Gumla were reported to have died of the infectious disease and another five people were reported to be ill. The local health department have immediately rushed in to see if the deaths were from […]
