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Donald "D.A." Henderson, a physician, educator, and epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox, died at 87 years of age on Aug. 19, 2016.
Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.
After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the global eradication of smallpox in 1979. Smallpox is one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011.
Key to the eradication effort, given an insufficient supply of vaccine to inoculate everyone, was "surveillance-containment":
This technique entailed rapid reporting of cases from all health units and prompt vaccination of household members and close contacts of confirmed cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Henderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
2014 Interview: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-special-henderson/ or use YouTube.
(Score: 2) by Spook brat on Friday August 26 2016, @10:01PM
There are some intelligence agencies with rules about this kind of thing
But if you told us which ones, they'd have to kill you?
Touché!
I can vouch for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and its subsidiaries in the various branches of the U.S. Military, that's all. YMMV with other U.S. agencies, all bets are off when you jump to other nations. There are a few I'd suspect of similar shenanigans, but I'll be polite and keep idle rumors to myself.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @11:49PM
Thank you for the answer and for being a good sport.