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Global pandemics and epidemics and how they relate to you
\"Offers basic consumer health information about epidemics, pandemics, and notable pseudopandemics over the years and across the world, disease management, including monitoring and planning, and action plan during outbreaks and for future incidents. Along with statistical data, a glossary, and directory of organizations\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Plagues in the nation : how epidemics shaped America
\"Sheds light on the US government's response to epidemics through history-with larger conclusions about COVID-19 and reforms needed before the next plague\"-- Provided by publisher.
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American Contagions
A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been
shaped by-the experience of contagion
\"Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt's
legal survey a fascinating resource\"- Kirkus , starred
review
\"Professor Witt's book is an original and thoughtful contribution
to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law.
Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience of
epidemics from yellow fever to COVID-19, he is especially timely in
his exploration of the legal background to the current disaster of
the American response to the coronavirus. A thought-provoking,
readable, and important work.\"-Frank Snowden, author of
Epidemics and Society From yellow fever to smallpox to
polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to
make choices and answer questions about their basic values and
their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt
traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious
disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that
throughout American history legal approaches to public health have
been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others,
Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought
up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the
relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What
is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the
states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give
way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the
inequities of our mixed tradition continue?
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American Pandemic : the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic
\"In 1918-1919 influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history. Focusing on those closest to the crisis--patients, families, communities, public health officials, nurses and doctors--this book explores the epidemic in the United States\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gain-of-Function Research
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) research. This was the Academies' second meeting held at the request of the U.S. government to provide a mechanism to engage the life sciences community and the broader public and solicit feedback on optimal approaches to ensure effective federal oversight of GOF research as part of a broader U.S. government deliberative process.
The first symposium, held in December 2014, examined the underlying scientific and technical questions surrounding the potential risks and benefits of GOF research involving pathogens with pandemic potential. The second symposium focused on discussion of the draft recommendations regarding GOF research of a Working Group of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. This report summarizes the key issues and ideas identified during the second symposium.
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Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020–2021
Salmonella infection causes epidemic death in wild songbirds, with potential to spread to humans. In February 2021, public health officials in Oregon and Washington, USA, isolated a strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium from humans and a wild songbird. Investigation by public health partners ultimately identified 30 illnesses in 12 states linked to an epidemic of Salmonella Typhimurium in songbirds. We report a multistate outbreak of human salmonellosis associated with songbirds, resulting from direct handling of sick and dead birds or indirect contact with contaminated birdfeeders. Companion animals might have contributed to the spread of Salmonella between songbirds and patients; the outbreak strain was detected in 1 ill dog, and a cat became ill after contact with a wild bird. This outbreak highlights a One Health issue where actions like regular cleaning of birdfeeders might reduce the health risk to wildlife, companion animals, and humans.
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Diseased states : epidemic control in Britain and the United States
\"Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens' lives and bodies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the continuing controversy surrounding so-called \"gain-of-function\" (GOF) research on respiratory pathogens with pandemic potential. The gain of function controversy began in late 2011 with the question of whether to publish the results of two experiments involving H5N1 avian influenza and continued to focus on certain research with highly pathogenic avian influenza over the next three years. The heart of the U.S. process is an evaluation of the potential risks and benefits of certain types of GOF experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses that would inform the development and adoption of a new U.S. Government policy governing the funding and conduct of GOF research.
Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research is the summary of a two-day public symposia on GOF research. Convened in December 2014 by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, the main focus of this event was to discuss principles important for, and key considerations in, the design of risk and benefit assessments of GOF research. Participants examined the underlying scientific and technical questions that are the source of current discussion and debate over GOF research involving pathogens with pandemic potential. This report is a record of the presentations and discussion of the meeting.
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