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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.
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 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 · Objectives: 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.
The largest exportation of cases in the program occurred in India. The Tatanagar railway station was the source of dozens of cases in surrounding states and districts until the case tracking and containment strategy was intensified, with major assistance from Tata industries that joined the program with staff and funds [27].
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.
2 gru 2019 · Claiming over 300 million lives in the 20th century alone, smallpox killed 3 out every 10 person it infected. Thanks to women like Mary Guinan and Cornelia E Davis, India was able to rid itself of the disease.
