Armed Forces Capital Hospital

When Did We Learn to See Malocclusion? Böcklin’s Death, the Deviated Mandible, and the Orthodontic Eye

Arnold Böcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872) is usually interpreted as a modern memento mori: the artist pauses at his work while Death plays a fiddle immediately behind him. Yet a closer anatomical inspection reveals another striking feature. Böcklin's own...

Establishment of a CD46 and desmoglein-2 expressing mouse model for human adenovirus type 55 vaccine evaluation

Human adenovirus type 55 (HAdV-55) is an emerging respiratory pathogen associated with severe pneumonia, for which no licensed vaccines are currently available. The lack of physiologically relevant small-animal models has limited preclinical evaluation of vaccine candidates. In t...

Effect of armed conflict on measles surveillance and zero-dose vaccination status in Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018–2024

Abstract Background Armed conflict disrupts health systems, undermining routine immunization and disease surveillance. These disruptions can delay outbreak detection and allow population susceptibility to accumulate unnoticed. This study assessed the impact of the 2020–2022 confl...