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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.
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.
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.
The selected documents illustrate the evolution of the Smallpox Eradication Program in various states of India from 1972 until 1977. The World of Smallpox Smallpox is caused by a highly contagious virus (Variola major) which is spread through person-to-person contact.
8 maj 2010 · The first time I visited India, in early 1975, I had a routine smallpox vaccination. Later that year, after a massive vaccination campaign, India was finally declared free from smallpox, then Bangladesh. Only Africa was still reporting cases.
Impact: By 1977, the last endemic case of smallpox was recorded in Somalia. In May 1980, after two years of surveillance and searching, the World Health Assembly declared that smallpox was the first disease in history to have been eradicated. The eradication of smallpox—the complete extermi-nation of a notorious scourge—has been heralded as
