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H?N?: Prepare Before it Arrives!

Posted October 6th, 2008 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

“For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives …. It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.” Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO

In the last century we had three flu pandemics: Spanish flu in 1918, Asian flu in 1957, and Hong Kong flu in 1968. In the United States, the Spanish flu killed more people than all the combat deaths of the 20th century, with more than 500,000 deaths in the United States and 20–40 million worldwide.

Topics: avian flu, flu, H5N1, Healthcare News and Updates, influenza, pandemic, vaccination, vaccine

Arm-to-Arm Transfer

Posted October 6th, 2008 in

Smallpox is terrifying. In earlier centuries the devastation that raced through the “virgin soil” native tribes in the New World can never be fully comprehended by those of us who have never seen the disease. The horror that led family members to abandon one another and flee, carrying the disease with them, is truly a study in human history.

The Balmis Expedition

Topics: history of medicine, smallpox, vaccination, vaccine, virus

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