Why no one gets smallpox anymore | GeoJesser Explains | Smallpox Vaccine
5Welcome back to my occasional series, GeoJesser Explains! Today, we're tackling a somewhat controversial topic by learning about how the world worked together over several decades to completely eradicate smallpox, a deadly, disfiguring disease that had ravaged humanity for millennia.
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Sources:
About smallpox, the vaccine, and eradication:
https://www.who.int/health-topics/smallpox#tab=tab_1
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/41/9/1285/278013?login=false
https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/archive/doc/millions/MS_case_1.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
Efficacy and Effectiveness:
https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/vaccine-efficacy-effectiveness-and-protection
Measles statistics:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/awardees/vaccine-management/price-list/index.html#pediatric
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103967/#:~:text=The%20median%20total%20cost%20per,indirect%20costs%20associated%20with%20measles.
https://www.nfid.org/infectious-diseases/measles/#:~:text=About%201%20in%205%20unvaccinated,even%20with%20the%20best%20care
Images:
Girl with smallpox - By Photo Credit:Content Providers(s): CDC/James Hicks - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #3265.Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers.العربية | Deutsch | English | македонски | slovenščina | +/−, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4394235
Smallpox drawing, 16th century - By en:Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), compiler. Original illustration by unknown 16th-century artist; this version of the drawing by unknown 16th-century copyist. - Florentine Codex (1540-1585), Book XII folio 54 [detail].As reproduced in:Fields, Sherry (2008). Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico, Gutenberg-e series, e-book edn. New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-14240-3.Reproduction from the MS. held at Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7782729
Painting of Edward Jenner administering the first smallpox vaccine - By Ernest Board - [2] images.wellcome.ac.uk, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8776638
Map of Royal Philanthropic Expedition - By Ecelan - Derivative work from:File:BlankMap-World6.svg (PD)File:Jeringuilla.svg (GFDL & Cc-by-sa)carrack in Open Clip Library (PD), author papapishu, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7008271
Child with measles - By CDC/NIP/Barbara Rice - http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/ (ID#: 132), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=210382