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Health ties between Spain and Philippines
By Dr. Willie T. Ong | June 26, 2012 - 12:00am
Here is a beautiful story from our medical history.
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US: No rush to destroying last smallpox viruses
May 17, 2011 - 5:38pm
The U.S. health secretary says the last-known stockpiles of the smallpox virus won't be destroyed anytime soon in part out of fear that one of the world's deadliest diseases could be used as a bioweapon.
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New smallpox vaccine immunogenic and safe
YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE - By Charles C. Chante MD | January 3, 2010 - 12:00am
The third-generation smallpox vaccine LC16m8 was found to be as immunogenic as existing smallpox vaccines but appeared to be safer in a study of more than 3,000 Japanese adults.
Opinion
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Smallpox vaccine in flux for doctors
YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE - By Charles C. Chante MD | April 13, 2003 - 12:00am
The risk of exposure to smallpox is too small-and the risk posed by the vaccine too great – to justify vaccinating most physicians at this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory...
Opinion
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Trouble with vaccines to fight bioterrorism
YOUR DOSE OF MEDICINE - By Charles C. Chante MD | October 20, 2002 - 12:00am
After last fall’s anthrax attacks, talk about treating and preventing illnesses cause by bioterrorism agents took on new urgency. While vaccines to prevent diseases like anthrax or smallpox may seem like an...
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Smallpox greatest threat in bioterrorism attack
ROSES AND THORNS - By Alejandro R. Roces | October 27, 2001 - 12:00am
Before the war, it was very easy to know people who had survived smallpox. They were called bulutongos because their faces bore ugly scabs of the disease. Thanks to vaccination, the spread of the disease was controlled...
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