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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…
Larry Brilliant
Dr. Larry Brilliant
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,…
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…
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…
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.
System for identifying and managing a suspected or confirm case of smallpox
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
This chart was created by the Center for Disease Control in the Unitd States. In an ideal situation, this is how a smallpox outbreak should be…
Reward poster
Poster advertising payment for information on new smallpox cases.
Bifurcated needle
World Health Organization
The bifurcated needle, first employed in 1968, has a forked needle which was dipped into the smallpox vaccine. The skin was then pricked rapidly…
Procedure for vaccination using a bifurcated needle.
World Health Organization
Procedure for vaccination using a bifurcated needle. This information was intended for healthcare workers and is written in Hindi. An English version…
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