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Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. A fatal laboratory-acquired case occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. The global eradication of smallpox was certified,
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www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/smallpox/en/
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Title : Records relating to the Smallpox Eradication Programme ... The fonds consists of a wealth of correspondence, notes, decisions and discussions, essentially between the smallpox eradication unit and collaborators in different countries, as well as with national health authorities, laboratories and the medical...
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Smallpox Eradication Timeline ... On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the smallpox eradication, scientists at CDC and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported on their efforts to look back into time to help unravel the puzzle of smallpox evolution.
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www.cdc.gov/Features/SmallpoxEradication/
www.cdc.gov/Features/SmallpoxEradication/
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One sceptical note was made at the symposium by the two introductory speakers -- Fenner & Henderson (3,4). They reflected on the broader applicability of disease eradication from their vantage point of nearly 15 years of participation in the just concluded smallpox eradication campaign.
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Global eradication of smallpox, by any measure, ranks among the great achievements of humankind. ... The Smallpox Eradication Chronicle Browse by... content type country people date ... Field Report: I . SMALLPOX ERADICATION IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA II . View it >
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www.globalhealthchronicles.org/smallpox
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Stanley Music Oral History Dr. Stanley Music describes his experiences as an epidemiologist in Bangladesh with the Smallpox Eradication Program from 1973-1975.
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www.globalhealthchronicles.org/smallpox/record/list/subject/Smallpox+Eradication
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In 1964 he was transferred to WHO Headquarters in Geneva, and in 1966 he joined the Smallpox Eradication unit, of which he was Chief from 1977 until 1984. He is now Director of the Kumamoto National Hospi-tal in Japan and a member of the advisory group on international health of the Ministry of Health and Welfare...
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whqlibdoc.who.int/smallpox/9241561106.pdf
whqlibdoc.who.int/smallpox/9241561106.pdf
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This programme, known as the Global Intensified Eradication Programme, was highly successful, and led in 1980 to the WHO declaration of the official eradication of smallpox. The last natural case of smallpox ocurred in Somalia in 1977 (3).
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www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/32/history.htm
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In accordance with recommendations of the Global Commission on the certification of smallpox eradication for the 10-year period after the eradication of this infection, all suspected cases of smallpox have been thoroughly checked up, and in none of them the diagnosis of smallpox has been confirmed. ... The Medscape Journal...
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