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GHP News Podcast

Global Health Cast Edition 41

Forty-first Edition of the Global Health Cast presented by Prof. Schmitt and Dr. Sanicas. 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Topics covered 01:17 Global COVID-19 overview 07:01 Blood grouping and SARS-CoV-2 11:22 Most infectious...

12 July, 2023

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Outbreak News

Smallpox vaccine, IMVANEX, to be supplied to unknown European country in response to monkeypox

Bavarian Nordic A/S announced Thursday that the Company has secured a contract with an undisclosed European country to supply its IMVANEX® smallpox vaccine in response to new cases of monkeypox evolving during May 2022...

23 May, 2022

2 min read

Latest Science

Smallpox vaccines can be 85% effective against monkeypox: WHO

Data shows that vaccines that were used to eradicate smallpox are up to 85 percent effective against monkeypox, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). There isn’t a specific vaccine for monkeypox, but a...

23 May, 2022

3 min read

Latest Science

Smallpox: the world’s first eradicated disease

Smallpox is a debilitating and occasionally fatal disease that’s highly contagious. Prior to 1980, the disease killed 3 out of every 10 people who became infected, according to the National Institute of Allergy...

25 April, 2019

5 min read

Latest Science

New clues on the history of the smallpox vaccine virus

Smallpox – simply hearing the word evokes images of countless people suffering gruesome deaths throughout recorded history. Known scientifically as variola, the virus had 30 percent mortality rate and survivors...

2 October, 2015

4 min read