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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.
13 gru 2020 · This study tells us that if smallpox re-emergence occurs, it may have significant health and economic impact, the extent of which will depend on the availability and delivery of interventions such as a vaccine or antiviral agent, and the capacity of case isolation and treatment.
A single vaccination can prevent infection from smallpox for at least a decade, and some studies have suggested that some protection is present even 30 years after vaccination. Even where vaccination failed to prevent infection, the resulting disease tended to be milder and have a lower fatality rate.1.
8 maj 2010 · In lively prose with unpatronising insight into past medical dilemmas, he dramatises the scourge and its treatment first by variolation (immunisation with live smallpox virus) then vaccination, but also shows how controversial smallpox vaccination was during the 19th century.
One method was variolisation or inoculation in which a person was inoculated with a small amount of live smallpox virus taken from the scabs or pus of ill patients who had a mild form of the disease. Such inoculations reduced the fatality rate from 30 percent to about 1 percent.
From March to November 1976, 110 million households -- in more than half a million Indian villages and in 260 urban areas -- were searched for new smallpox cases. (International Smallpox Assessment Commission 5) Only cases of chickenpox were found.
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.
