BACKGROUND Sheep pox and goat pox are contagious viral diseases of sheep and goats, respectively. The diseases result in substantial economic losses due to decreased milk and meat production, damage to hides and wool, and possible trade restriction. A study was undertaken in Amhara region of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study design was used to estimate the sero-prevalence and identify associate...

Attracted by this letter, Dr. D. McEwen, an intelligent Assistant Surgeon, Her Majesty's British Forces, in medical charge of the Artillery at Saugcr, determined to make use of the agent in eruptive fevers, and he has kindly favored me, for publication in the Indian Medical Gazette, with the particulars of a case of small-pox in an officer of the Royal Artillery, where the physiological effect ...

character of the lymph or the possibility of its contamination during the time the different inoculations were made. The precautions adopted were the following :? (1) The employment of new lancets or scalpels for each operation and the employment of new compressors when used. (2) The keeping of the calves in a large shed within the grounds of the small-pox hospital. (3) The bringing of the firs...

K. R. Nayar  Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. E-mail: [email protected] There are several instances where specific targeted programs and goals have wreaked havoc with the health services system in several countries. After the family planning program and the small-pox eradication drive, the recent case of such diversion happened due to the p...

1. While Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, and Gilbert in World Civilizations: The Global Experience (a.k.a. the textbook) argue that the decline of the Roman empire can be attributed to “a set of general problems, triggered by a cycle of plagues that could not be prevented, resulting in a rather mechanistic spiral that steadily worsened” (2nd ed., p. 239; 3rd ed., p. 258; 4th ed., p. 233; 5th ed., p. 2...

A TaqMan real-time RT-PCR was developed to detect and quantify RNA-targets from the non-circulative, non-persistently transmitted Plum pox virus (PPV) in individual fresh or aphids captured previously and squashed on paper. Reliable quantitation ranged from 40 up to 4 x 10(8) copies of control transcripts. This technique was applied successfully to plant material and to individual PPV vector (M...

tion tried until five days later, when two of them were already sick. All five were down with small-pox by the 8th of January, and were sent to St. Louis on the 9th, two dying before the eruption, with high temperature, and hsematuria; the others had the complete rigors of hsemorrhagic small-pox, and, before the 16th of January, all had died. The first to show signs of sickening were a little g...

Smallpox has been a major epidemic disease since the dawn of history. Caused by the variola virus – a large DNA virus, which is a strict human pathogen with no carrier state. The virus belongs to a related group of viruses causing pox-like infections in other mammals. The milder infections caused by these animal viruses in humans generate excellent immunity against smallpox, as does natural or ...

the study of these diseases must be of special interest to you, gentlemen, to whom the study of the origin, spread, and prevention of communicable diseases in the human race is essential, I need hardly emphasise; nor need I remind you that this study, at any rate as regards some of the diseases communicable to man and beast, is of very old date; e.g., that glanders is communicable from the hors...

The effect of high dietary intakes of vitamin E on antibody production was investigated in chicks and turkeys. Chicks were fed four diets with 0, 10, 30, and 150 mg/kg added vitamin E and turkeys were fed three diets with 0, 50, and 150 mg/kg added vitamin E. Antibodies produced in response to naturally occurring Escherichia coli and to Newcastle disease virus and turkey pox vaccines were deter...