Management of Smallpox Eradication in India

by Lawrence B. Brilliant

Overview

Doctor Lawrence Brilliant and Doctor Isao Arita, Chief, Smallpox Eradication Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, visited West Bengal during the autumn of 1973 in order to initiate the first trial of the smallpox eradication program, namely, a statewide search for hidden cases in a population of sixty million. Eighteen months of intensive work produced a final result of the recording of the last smallpox case in India; the date of onset of rash was May 24, 1975. No more cases have been detected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472223923
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	10/01/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lawrence B. Brilliant is associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. He is an executive officer ofNetwork Technologies, Incorporated, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The World Health Organization requested that Doctor Brilliant write this management case study.