[Development and trial of a new system of active search for the intensive suppression of smallpox outbreaks in India].
In carrying out emergency smallpox control campaign in Uttar Pradesh State of India in the spring of 1973 the authors developed and first tried in a large-scale field work a new system of smallpox control consisting in repeated weekly search of cases in the entire territory of the affected district followed by intensive suppression of the discovered foci of the disease by vaccination. This new strategy for smallpox eradication was officially adopted since October, 1973, in the smallpox eradication programme in India. The new system was widely used for smallpox control in the last smallpox-endemic countries of the Hindustan peninsula which significantly speeded up smallpox eradication.
D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012621:Seasons; D012899:Smallpox / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014944:World Health Organization
Razrabotka i ispytanie novoĭ sistemy aktivnogo poiska i intensivnogo podavleniia vspyshek natural'noĭ ospy v Indii.