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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.
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.
Abstract. It has been more than 35 years since the last naturally occurring case of smallpox. Sufficient time has passed to allow an objective overview of what were the key factors in the success of the eradication effort and what lessons smallpox can offer to other campaigns.
The Disease. Smallpox was caused by a variola virus and was transmit-ted between people through the air. It was usually spread by face-to-face contact with an infected person and to a lesser extent through contaminated clothes and bedding.
Eradication-a panel of sixteen experts on smallpox eradication-visited India to review data and observe search activities in the slum areas, remote accessible areas, and recently endemic areas in the country. On April 23, 1977, the commission certified that smallpox had been eradicated from India.
Through these efforts, Indian federal authorities agreed to keep the country in the global program; they also agreed to streamline the national health department, create a more dynamic smallpox unit within it, and commit greater resources to state-level smallpox eradication efforts from 1968 onwards. 9 The WHO's Smallpox Eradication Units in ...
In 1959, smallpox was endemic in much of sub-Saharan Africa as well as Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Brazil. India accounted for 60.3% of total global cases, prompting the Ministry of Health to focus on eradicating smallpox through a Central Expert Committee.
