Eradication of Smallpox

A topic within History of Medicine, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.

Reading on Eradication of Smallpox

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Report1980

The Global Eradication of Smallpox: Final Report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication

Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication

Certifies, on the basis of two years without a single reported case anywhere, that smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, closing the campaign Fenner's history later narrates in full.

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Medicine & Health · History of Medicine

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Book1988

Smallpox and Its Eradication

Frank Fenner et al.

Gives the official WHO history of the decade-long campaign that eradicated smallpox in 1980, arguing that targeted surveillance and containment, not mass vaccination alone, was decisive once outbreaks became localised.