A Blueprint for Preparedness The coordinated global health effort that beat smallpox once, offers a blueprint for addressing future threats. The world has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, ...

Close personal contact is required for transmission of variola, the DNA virus that causes smallpox. Following an incubation period, infected persons have prodromal symptoms that include high fever ...

Investigators have modeled smallpox outbreaks in modern populations using historical transmission rates. [7, 8, 9] The objectives and results of these studies varied, but all confirm that the ...

The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions.

Prevention of vertical transmission of HBV is an important goal, as this type of transmission is a major cause of new infections and is associated with an increased risk of progression to liver ...

This note examines the transmission of credit risk of banks to the sovereign using the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023—an event that reverberated globally across banking sectors—as ...

According to Oncor, the 765 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines would run approximately 235-270 miles long, depending on the route chosen. In response to the question of why extra high-voltage lines ...