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Subhash Ch Chakrabortti. 2003. SARS--experience makes one wise.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15168972/
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Kidney transplant physicians and surgeons met in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from April 1-4, 2004 for the International Forum on the Care of the Live Kidney Donor. Forum participants included over 100 experts and leaders in transplantation representing more than 40 countries from around the world, including participants from the following continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Therapeutic vaccines are likely to provide a significant and growing contribution to tackling some of the manifold health problems that face us in the future. However, despite these real benefits, I suggest the need for caution in relation to one possible ethical argument that could be used to support the introduction of therapeutic vaccination over preventive vaccination for contagious diseases where both types of vaccination exist. I argue that therapeutic vaccination will not solve what I call the 'prevention problem': that is, a perceived injustice in the distribution of benefits and harms arising from population-based preventive vaccination policies.
Between 1997 and 2003 an annual average of 1867 new entrants seen at the port of arrival were notified to the communicable disease teams who now form the Essex Health Protection Unit. We examined the number of individuals who made contact with health services by linking port health and tuberculosis databases with combinations of surname, forename and date of birth the number of new entrants developing tuberculosis. We also searched paper records for all incidents of active tuberculosis in health and residential care workers. Eighteen individuals were in both port health and tuberculosis data sets; only one was identified by new entrant screening. In the same period there were 35 cases of active tuberculosis in health care workers, only one of whom had been screened on arrival in the United Kingdom, resulting in follow-up of 371 contacts. The new entrant screening programme in Essex should be stopped and resources diverted to improve followup of new entrants, especially those who are health care workers.