Twillingate: Socialized medicine, rural doctors and the CIA By J.T.H. Connor
When the east coast settlement of Twillingate decided to found a hospital as a memorial to the 200 local men killed during WWI, the Society of United Fishermen raised funds in the hope that the International Grenfell Association would operate it. [ Read
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The Worst Case Scenario: Planning For a Pandemic Influenza — A Checklist
North America has recently seen flares of measles, mumps, SARS, and XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis). The latter caused the Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control to order a man into isolation. The last time the CDC issued such an order was 1963, for smallpox.
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This Won't Hurt a Bit: Disease, vaccine and urban legends By
Andrea Kitta
Although the concept of a vaccine has been around since Edward Jenner's vaccine for smallpox in 1796, inoculation is still a very recent technological breakthrough.
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