Small-pox vaccine

The following section describes various aspects involved in planning and conducting mass immunization and prophylactic treatment for your local area clinics. Factors such as state and local planning, estimating vaccine and medication needs, clinic site selection, staffing patterns, and detailed description of supplies and equipment needs are discussed. Principles for this section have been drawn from the Small Pox Vaccination Clinic... 

K3. Kempe, C. H., Studies on smallpox and complications of small-pox vaccination. Pediatrics 26, 176-189 (1960). 

Smith, K.A., 2011. Edward jenner and the small pox vaccine. Front. Immunol. 2, 1-6. 

The result of vaccination programmes have been very impressive. The treatment of certain infectious diseases have been drastically reduced, with their virtual elimination from some countries where they formerly caused considerable disability and many deaths. Vaccination has also opened up the possibility of completely eradicating some diseases from the face of the earth e.g. small pox and polio. 

Biological products have a longer history than is generally assumed. At one time small pox accounted for 10% of deaths in some countries. The development of cow pox vaccination in 1796, and later the Variocella vaccine, has led to small pox being the only infectious disease ever to have been eradicated from the planet the final outbreak was after a laboratory accident in 1979, leading to a small number of cases. 

Hanna W. Studies in small pox and vaccination. Bristol, England Wright 1913. 

Vaccines are the most effective means of prevention of diseases. Eradication of small pox worldwide attests to the power of this preventive strategy. The rarity of infectious diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, mtunps, and measles in the Western world is largely due to success-fill immunizations. Development of effective vaccines is seen as the hope for prevention of other infectious diseases such as malaria, AIDS, and hepatitis B and C infections. 

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