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Smallpox target zero
World Health Organization
In October 1972, the World Health Organization celebrated the launch of the Smallpox Target Zero campaign with this magazine cover for World Health.
Report from district and state surveillance team
World Health Organization
This weekly report shows that 92% of the villages in Singbhum district were visited May 4-10, 1975. The majority knew that active searches were being…
Singhbhum District file - 1975.
World Health Organization
This file contains a report of outbreaks pending, showing that on the five outbreaks active at the end of the previous week, one was removed from…
Smallpox weekly report form for the epidemiologist and district office managers - Singhbhum district, November 1974.
World Health Organization
This weekly report indicates, for each block, the number of cases reported during the week, the number of active outbreaks, new outbreaks detected,…
Use of recognition cards
World Health Organization
A health worker shows a recognition card to women in a village, Bangladesh, 1975.

The worker is searching for patients with simiiar rash-like…
Vaccinated children in India
World Health Organization
Three children show the vaccination marks on their arm.
Stages of rash for smallpox and chickenpox
World Health Organization
The poster was prepared in 1970 to help newly recruited staff recognize the differences between the rashes for each disease. The text and drawings at…
Jet injector
World Health Organization
The jet injector was introduced for routine field use in 1967. It was easy to use and provide quick innoculations which was important during mass…
Vaccinostyle with interchangeable needle tips
World Health Organization
Vaccinostyles were used to administer the smallpox vaccine into the body using scratch techniques.
Map of active smallpox cases in Palamau district, Bihar
World Health Organization
The 15th Active Search was conducted throughout India from 27 January to 1 February 1975. This map was compiled from summaries of active search…
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