Bullets as Pathogen-The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches

Eric W Fleegler; Laura Vargas; Christian D Pulcini; Stephen Hargarten

doi:10.1001/jama.2024.25535

Bullets as Pathogen-The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches

JAMA. 2024 Dec 9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.25535. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Eric W Fleegler^{1

2}, Laura Vargas³, Christian D Pulcini⁴, Stephen Hargarten⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Gun Violence Prevention Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
² Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Comprehensive Injury Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

PMID: 39652065
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.25535

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This JAMA Viewpoint explores how public health principles related to communicable diseases and bullet-specific regulations could be applied in the US to prevent further injury and death due to gun violence.