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40 Years without smallpox. / Shchelkunova, G. A.; Shchelkunov, S. N.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - 40 Years without smallpox
AU - Shchelkunova, G. A.
AU - Shchelkunov, S. N.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The last case of natural smallpox was recorded in October, 1977. It took humanity almost 20 years to achieve that feat after the World Health Organization had approved the global smallpox eradication program. Vaccination against smallpox was abolished, and, during the past 40 years, the human population has managed to lose immunity not only to smallpox, but to other zoonotic orthopoxvirus infections as well. As a result, multiple outbreaks of orthopoxvirus infections in humans in several continents have been reported over the past decades. The threat of smallpox reemergence as a result of evolutionary transformations of these zoonotic orthopoxviruses exists. Modern techniques for the diagnostics, prevention, and therapy of smallpox and other orthopoxvirus infections are being developed today.
AB - The last case of natural smallpox was recorded in October, 1977. It took humanity almost 20 years to achieve that feat after the World Health Organization had approved the global smallpox eradication program. Vaccination against smallpox was abolished, and, during the past 40 years, the human population has managed to lose immunity not only to smallpox, but to other zoonotic orthopoxvirus infections as well. As a result, multiple outbreaks of orthopoxvirus infections in humans in several continents have been reported over the past decades. The threat of smallpox reemergence as a result of evolutionary transformations of these zoonotic orthopoxviruses exists. Modern techniques for the diagnostics, prevention, and therapy of smallpox and other orthopoxvirus infections are being developed today.
KW - Chemotherapeutic drugs
KW - DNA diagnostics
KW - Evolution
KW - Smallpox
KW - Vaccine
KW - Variola (smallpox) virus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040708859&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.32607/2075851-2017-9-4-4-12
DO - 10.32607/2075851-2017-9-4-4-12
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040708859
VL - 9
SP - 4
EP - 12
JO - Acta Naturae
JF - Acta Naturae
SN - 2075-8251
IS - 4
ER -
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