title: [Smallpox control in Indochina: variolation vs vaccination?].
abstract: To the technical and administrative difficulties encountered by the propagation of Jennerian vaccination among Indochinese populations since the beginning of French colonization, was opposed the will to impose a western prophylactic method. This led to some aberrations, such as attempts of compulsive mass-vaccination with an ineffective and/or unsafe product. There was also an inherent contradiction between the French medical service's proclaimed wish to apply vaccination to the entire Indochinese population and its suspicious attitude concerning the know-how of local practitioners. But the important small-pox endemicity in Indochina also made this tropical area a great ground for experience because it led to advances in vaccine production methods, e.g., from buffaloes, and even in the 'science of immunization'.
authors.affiliation: CNRS-INSERM Unité 158, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guénel
mesh_terms: D002160:Cambodia; D002648:Child; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization / Q000266:history; D012899:Smallpox / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012900:Smallpox Vaccine / Q000266:history; D014611:Vaccination / Q000266:history; D014744:Vietnam
chemical_list: D012900:Smallpox Vaccine
vernacular_title: Lutte contre la variole en Indochine: Variolisation contre vaccination?