Publications
| smallpox manifestations and survival during the boston epidemic of 1901 to 1903. | clinical records of 243 patients with smallpox consecutively admitted to the southampton street smallpox hospital in boston, massachusetts, during the 1901-1903 epidemic were reviewed. smallpox was divided into five categories of varying severity; 47% of patients had varioloid, a relatively mild form of the disease usually occurring in previously vaccinated individuals with incomplete immunity. survival information is available for 206 patients, of whom 36 (17.5%) died. vaccination status, disea ... | 2002 | 12484715 |
| federal and state public health authority and mandatory vaccination: is jacobson v massachusetts still valid? | novel h1n1 influenza virus infected more than 43,000 people, killed 353 and spread to more than 122 countries within a few months. the world health organization declared a stage 6 worldwide pandemic. healthcare workers and hospitals prepared for the worst. federal and state regulations provided the legal framework to allow for the preparation and planning for a pandemic. one state had mandated both seasonal and novel h1n1 vaccination of all healthcare workers in an effort to reduce transmission ... | 2010 | 20496643 |