Open AccessThe eradication of smallpox, a success story for modern medicine and public health: What lessons for the future?
Author(s) -
Eugenia Tognotti
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.1204
Subject(s) - smallpox , public health , medicine , smallpox vaccine , alternative medicine , virology , family medicine , political science , vaccination , nursing , biology , vaccinia , pathology , biochemistry , gene , recombinant dna
Thirty years ago, on 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization certified that smallpox had been eradicated globally. For the first time in history, mankind had conquered a disease. It was certainly the greatest achievement of twentieth century medicine.
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