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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.
Center for Global Development (undated) Case Study 1: Eradicating Smallpox. Available online on their website. The calculations are based on the cost of caring for a smallpox patient ($2.85 in India), a person's economic productivity over their life time and each developing countries' population as well as the estimated number of smallpox cases ...
31 mar 2022 · One of the most challenging locations for the global smallpox eradication mission was India. Here smallpox was particularly virulent: the country accounted for 60% of the world’s smallpox cases and it killed one out of every four people who acquired it.
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.
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.
17 maj 2023 · This inaugural case study examines the motivations and mechanisms of joint U.S.-Soviet efforts in smallpox eradication in the 1960s and 1970s.
17 lut 2011 · According to Alibek, one particularly virulent strain, India 67 or India 1, was chosen by the Russians to be weaponised. They perfected techniques for mass producing smallpox and maintained...
