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Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. ...
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Biodefense refers to short term, local, usually military measures to restore biosecurity to a given group of persons in a given area — in the civilian terminology, it is a very robust biohazard response. It is technically possible to apply biodefense measures to protect animals or plants, but this is generally uneconomic. However, protection of water supplies and food supplies are often a critical part of biodefense. ...
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Smallpox as related to Biodefense
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Smallpox Main Page ... Questions and Answers about Smallpox ... Biodefense: NIAID Research (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) ...
- Smallpox Biodefense: A Multifactoral Analysis
smallpox biodefense planning indicates that pre-attack voluntary, ... Figure 1. A Biodefense Failure: the National Smallpox Vaccination Program. One Year Later. ...
- Pressroom ::: Next Generation Biodefense, Anthrax Vaccine, Smallpox ...
VaxGen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of biologic products for the prevention and treatment of ...
- BioFactura - The BioDefense, BioManufacturing, BioPharmaceutical ...
BioFactura - The BioDefense, BioManufacturing, BioPharmaceutical Development Company ... of Defense SBIR Phase III Contract for Its Smallpox Biodefense Therapeutic ...
- Image Library, Biodefense, NIAID, NIH
NIAID > Topics > Biodefense and Related Programs > Biodefense > Public and Media ... Smallpox Vaccination Study-1. Smallpox vaccination dilution study: Dr. ...
- Biodefense
Smallpox. Donald A. Henderson | Dec 13, 2004. Smallpox. R. Mark Buller | Dec 20, 2004 ... Mary E. Wright | Jan 3, 2005. Anthrax. Theresa Koehler | Jan 10, 2005 ...
- Biodefense | Bioterrorism | Biological Warfare: BiodefenseEducation.org
Biodefense Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing education ... Smallpox - Monkeypox often affects lymph nodes ...
- Smallpox Scenarios
A reliable source of news for civilians about the threat of biological terrorism ... the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies site to find out much ...
- Smallpox Fact Sheet
An overview of Variola virus (Smallpox), including its use as a biological ... Inglesby TV, Bartlett JG, et al., for the Working Group on Civilain Biodefense. ...
- Smallpox Facts: Information about smallpox from BD
Smallpox infection was eradicated from the world in 1977. ... Biodefense Solutions. Contact Us. Resource Center ... Biodefense Solutions. Facts About Smallpox ...
- Smallpox Vaccine Delivery: BD Bifurcated Needle for Smallpox Vaccination
... committed to public health and our biodefense tools are at work in every imaginable setting. ... Biodefense Solutions. Contact Us. Resource Center ...
- Smallpox as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public Health Management ...
If used as a biological weapon, smallpox represents a serious threat to civilian ... Biodefense Quarterly, June 1999. Risk of a Deliberate Release of Smallpox Virus; ...
- NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for CDC Category A Agents
development for biodefense agents including NIAID Category ... a smallpox gene allows the virus ... Dryvax®, the traditional smallpox vaccine, because they are ...
- Smallpox as a Biological Weapon
vilian Biodefense Studies, Johns Hopkins University, ... Conclusions Specific recommendations are made regarding smallpox vaccination, ...
- Biodefense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... (AVA and Next Generation), smallpox, plague, tularemia, botulinum, ricin, and ... BiodefenseEducation.org - A biodefense digital library and learning ...
- Smallpox - MedlinePlus
Smallpox ... Biodefense and Bioterrorism. Infections. Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health ... Approves Second-Generation Smallpox Vaccine(Food and Drug ...
- Biodefense Resource Center
Useful links and resourcees from the Michigan State Medical Society. ... Recommendations on Smallpox Vaccination. Recommendations on Anthrax Vaccination ...
- A Biodefense Failure:
A Biodefense Failure. The National Smallpox Vaccination Program One Year Later ... entire biodefense effort. Achieving Smallpox Preparedness: An Imperative for ...
- Smallpox
Biodefense Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing education on biodefense, bioterrorism and biological warfare.
- Facts about bioterrorism/biodefense
Bioterrorism and biodefense defined. ... example, just months ago we had only 15 million smallpox ... smallpox and tularemia vaccines is ongoing. ...

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