Should remaining stockpiles of smallpox virus (variola) be destroyed?
Emerg Infect Dis
; 17(4): 681-3, 2011 Apr.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21470459
ABSTRACT
In 2011, the World Health Organization will recommend the fate of existing smallpox stockpiles, but circumstances have changed since the complete destruction of these cultures was first proposed. Recent studies suggest that variola and its experimental surrogate, vaccinia, have a remarkable ability to modify the human immune response through complex mechanisms that scientists are only just beginning to unravel. Further study that might require intact virus is essential. Moreover, modern science now has the capability to recreate smallpox or a smallpox-like organism in the laboratory in addition to the risk of nature re-creating it as it did once before. These factors strongly suggest that relegating smallpox to the autoclave of extinction would be ill advised.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Contexto em Saúde:
11_ODS3_cobertura_universal
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2_ODS3
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4_TD
Problema de saúde:
11_governance_arrangements
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2_cobertura_universal
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4_smallpox
Assunto principal:
Vírus da Varíola
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Política de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Asia
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Emerg Infect Dis
Assunto da revista:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos