Smallpox Eradication Programme News Today

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Mired in misconception, the poxvirus is endemic in certain African countries but was rarely reported in Europe and the U.S. until recently

The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday insisted on its recommendation not to vaccinate people against monkeypox en masse, despite the recent increase in the number of cases.

Although monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, the vaccine approved for use in Canada is different from the jabs used to eradicate smallpox last century.

"Thirty-two years of hard work against polio provide an array of lessons potentially useful to malaria and other disease eradication campaigns, building on the diversity of gains achieved and also the variety of setbacks encountered by the GPEI to date." Acknowledging the deep differences between malaria and polio and the stages in their path towar

Marvel Gordon was a quiet and self-assured young woman whose sharp mind...