title: [World-wide eradication of smallpox].
abstract: A short history of the disease and its vaccination is described. The role of WHO and its country members is underlined, in this unique triumph of the history of medicine. The success of the implementation of the programme and its monitoring of the epidemiological situation of the disease to the final declaration of the WHO 1980, of smallpox eradication, are analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Sanidad, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D006290:Health Planning Technical Assistance / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history; D012899:Smallpox / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012900:Smallpox Vaccine / Q000266:history*; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000266:history
chemical_list: D012900:Smallpox Vaccine
vernacular_title: Erradicación mundial de la viruela.