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Questions Regarding Mental Disorders And Violence Editorial

One of the tasks for forensic psychiatrists is to clear up the relationship between violent crimes and mental disorders. The defendant cannot be blamed in cases where delusions have influenced his/her behavior decisively. In such cases, the defendant’s criminal responsibility should be carefully evaluated according to the psychiatric evidence. It is possible for the defendant with untreated sch...

Editorial comment regarding H5N1 influenza article in this issue.

In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Sakabe et al report that the polymerase acidic (PA) protein component of the H5N1 influenza RNA-dependent RNA polymerase affects cytokine production in human macrophages and may be important in determining pathogenicity in mice [1]. They imply that PA may be relevant to the increased mortality mediated by hypercytokinemia in H5N1 infection in...

Author’s reply: Regarding the editorial by Penttinen and Friede

To the editor: We thank Fry et al. for their interest in our editorial, in which we sought to lay out the evolving evidence surrounding the effectiveness of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) in preventing infections with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and the potential consequences of a perceived or true lack of effectiveness for childhood immunisation programmes and pandemic preparedness [1]. W...

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