Smallpox: surveillance
1 May 2010
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Equipment for collecting specimens (scabs and pus) from suspected smallpox patients used for laboratory examination and diagnosis, 1970s.
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Taking a sample from the scabs of an infected person, Somalia, 1979.
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A surveillance team member questions a family about a potential smallpox case, Brazil, 1960s.
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A "smallpox detective" interviews a child while following the trail of infection and outbreak, Ethiopia, 1972.
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A woman shows her vaccination scar to an army medical unit, former Yugoslavia, 1972.
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Dr Henderson, chief of the Smallpox Eradication Unit, and a local health worker check the vaccination scars on a child, Ethiopia, 1975.
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Three children show the vaccination marks on their arm, India, 1970.
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