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This form required that each health worker report all cases of fever with rash, cases of and deaths due to chickenpox as well as cases of suspected smallpox. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity and caused millions of deaths before it was eradicated. It is believed to have existed for at least 3000 years. The smallpox vaccine, created by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
14 lut 2012 · As per confession of Dr. K. Alibekov, a Russian scientist who defected to US in 1992, one particularly virulent strain, India 67 or India 1, was weaponised by the Russians. They perfected techniques for mass producing smallpox and maintained a rolling annual stockpile of hundreds of tonnes.
