The globalsmallpox eradicationcampaign was a highly cost-effective operation. The expenditure by the WHO between 1967 and 1979 was US$81 million, to which could be added about US$32 million in bilateral aid contributions and some US$200 million in expenditures by the endemic countries involved ...
and severe pimples that result in extensive scarring. Smallpox was once a dreaded killer of children and caused the deaths of millions of Native Americans after the arrival of European settlers in the Americas. Following a worldwide vaccination campaign, smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, ...
Edward Jenner, a British general medical practitioner who used cowpox to prevent smallpox in 1796, is credited with the discovery of smallpox vaccine (vaccinia virus). However, the global smallpox eradication program did not rely only on vaccination. Although the strategy for eradication first foll...
During the eradication campaign which took place from the 1940s to the 1970s, two vaccinia strains were mainly used: in the USA and in countries where US-produced vaccines were employed, New York Board of Health strain (NYCBH); and in Europe, Lister-Elstree strains from Great Britain. Both...
Smallpox was declared eradicated from the world on October 12, 1979. This was slightly less than 13 years after the World Health Organization (WHO) program was initiated. It is unquestionably a wonderful success for humanity as a whole. How did this great achievement come about, given the ...
After the eradication of smallpox was cer- Box 2 | Variola virus, smallpox and bioterrorism tified in 1980, there were many who saw the destruction of the remaining stocks of vari- ola virus as the logical completion of the eradication campaign6,7,9. Advocates of this policy stated that...
A 10-year campaign led by the World Health Organization is right now at the point of success. The world may have seen its last case of the most devastating disease in human history
A house-to-house vaccination campaign began immediately within a 1.5-mile radius of her home. A member of the Smallpox Eradication Program team also visited every place within a 5-mile radius. Janet Parker was the last person to die because of smallpox. Parker was a medical photographer ...
Intimidation, coercion and resistance in the final stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973-1975. #Corruption#Smallpox#Vaccine#MedScienceResearch https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/7502097 — Jonathan Hutchinson on Vaccination Syphilis ...
Variola or smallpox does not have an animal reservoir, which in part made its successful eradication possible. The natural reservoir of monkeypox, despite its name, are rodents in Africa (Table 1). Its spread to Europe and the US has occurred either through importation of African rodents or...