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In response to the situation, in 1962 the government of India launched the National Smallpox Eradication Program (NSEP) with a focus on mass vaccination of the population. It poured money into the vaccine manufacturing industry and hired healthcare workers to perform inoculations.
The earliest credible clinical evidence of smallpox is found in the descriptions of smallpox-like disease in medical writings from ancient India (as early as 1500 BCE), [91] [92] and China (1122 BCE), [93] as well as a study of the Egyptian mummy of Ramses V (died 1145 BCE).
While 58% of global reported smallpox cases were reported in India in 1973, this increased to 86% in 1974. 28 Major pushes in vaccination campaigns, however, successfully drove down the number of infections to zero in India in 1976.
13 gru 2020 · To estimate the impact of a smallpox attack in Mumbai, India, examine the impact of case isolation and ring vaccination for epidemic containment and test the health system capacity under different scenarios with available interventions.
With a fatality rate of 30%, smallpox has killed millions of people over the last 3,000 years and abruptly altered history. Ramses V of Egypt (1145 BCE) was a notable early victim. Elsewhere, European royal dynastic succession was affected by heirs surviving (or not) the disease.
Because India is one of the most populous countries in the world and covers a large geographic area, it presented unique challenges to smallpox eradication. This online exhibit highlights selected documents from a collection of materials donated to the University of Michigan Library by Dr. Lawrence Brilliant, a member of the WHO country team ...
14 lut 2012 · As per confession of Dr. K. Alibekov, a Russian scientist who defected to US in 1992, one particularly virulent strain, India 67 or India 1, was weaponised by the Russians. They perfected techniques for mass producing smallpox and maintained a rolling annual stockpile of hundreds of tonnes.
