Transmission-Blocking Preventive Measures for Infectious Diseases: Altruism, Solidarity, and the Common Good

Aiming to prevent the spread of contagious diseases has long been a central tenet of public health. In the present time, divisive political responses to mask wearing to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission have competed with sound public health advice for public attention. Here, we draw parallels in term...

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Autores principales: Garber, Laine, Vinetz, Joseph M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021
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Perspective Pieces
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33705347
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1005
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spelling pubmed-81034722021-05-10 Transmission-Blocking Preventive Measures for Infectious Diseases: Altruism, Solidarity, and the Common Good Garber, Laine Vinetz, Joseph M. Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Pieces Aiming to prevent the spread of contagious diseases has long been a central tenet of public health. In the present time, divisive political responses to mask wearing to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission have competed with sound public health advice for public attention. Here, we draw parallels in terms of individualism versus societal solidarity between the slow and ponderous development of transmission-blocking vaccines for malaria and advocacy for mask wearing to prevent COVID-19. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021-05 2021-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8103472/ /pubmed/33705347 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1005 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open Access statement. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
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