Working conditions of the Smallpox Eradication Programme (SEP) team
12 May 2010
Workers in the field often had to adapt to very difficult conditions. Finding an effective means of transport to reach remote villages was challenging, and team members often had to travel on foot.
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Puncture on the road to a mountain village, Yemen, 1970s.
WHO/Don Piburn
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In Ethiopia, there were limited roads which were sometimes impassable. But the bridge shown here was crossed four times in 1974, Ethiopia, 1974.
WHO/Peter Roberts
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Travel during the monsoon season was an especially arduous task as roads disappeared under water and footbridges often consisted of little more than a plank supported by bamboo poles, Bangladesh, 1975.
WHO/Didier Henrioud
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Helicopters played a key role in the success of the Smallpox Eradication Programme in allowing access to the most remote regions of the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, 1975.
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SEP team workers with local children, Yemen, 1970.
WHO/Peter Roberts
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Staff of the WHO office in Chandpur, Bangladesh meet with a national epidemiologist, 1975.
WHO/Vladimir Zikmund
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Ethiopia - Somalia smallpox staff meeting on the border at Ferfer, Ethiopia, 1976.
WHO/Didier Henrioud
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Checking the stock of medical equipment and vaccines, Ethiopia, 1971.
WHO/Marc Vanappelghem
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Checking the vaccine reserves in Geneva, Switzerland, 1984.
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