The Disappointment of Smallpox Eradication and Economic Development

Bob H. Reinhardt

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1nthg6.9

The Disappointment of Smallpox Eradication and Economic Development

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In July 2006, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta hosted a celebration for the global eradication of smallpox. Most of the participants were veterans of the CDC’s Smallpox Eradication and Measles Control Program (SMP), a bilateral U.S. program in nineteen West and Central African countries that ran from 1966 to 1972, which contributed to the broader global effort supervised by the World Health Organization (WHO) that declared victory over smallpox in 1980. The Atlanta meeting was a largely cheerful affair, with old friends seeing each other for the first time in years, lectures to young CDC trainees about...

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945-1980
Editors	Patrick Manning, Mat Savelli
Chapter	3
Pages	47-60
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9780822986058
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nthg6.9
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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