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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.
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. Setting: The research is based on Mumbai, India population. Interventions: We tested 50%, 70%, 90 ...
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. Only Africa was still reporting cases.
Above all, through two case studies we examine the role of a specific medi-cal intervention-vaccination-in greatly reducing the number of smallpox deaths during the nineteenth century. Finally, our study underscores the sci-entific value of the various historical demographic data sets that exist for India. Smallpox case fatality
This case describes the World Health Organization’s global campaign to eradicate smallpox with the creation of the Expanded Program on Immunization which still exists as of 2016. This case study is part of Millions Saved, a collection of case studies produced by the Center for Global Develo…
27 sty 2004 · Smallpox case fatality in India was high—around 25–30 percent in unprotected populations—and significantly higher than estimated for unprotected populations in eighteenth-century Europe. Although vaccination reached India in 1802, the practice spread slowly during the first half of the nineteenth century.
