Abstract
Interview with Donald A. Henderson, the U.S. physician and epidemiologist who headed the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Program from 1966 to 1977. The interviewer talks about the endemic nature of smallpox in Brazil; relations between WHO, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Brazilian government; the role of Connaught Laboratories in the quality of the Brazilian smallpox vaccine; the process that brought certification of smallpox eradication in Brazil; international cooperation in eradicating smallpox and the various strategies applied; the role played by Brazilians in eradicating smallpox in India, Bangladesh, and Africa; and the future of the notion of disease eradication
Highlights
The interviewer talks about the endemic nature of smallpox in Brazil; relations between WHO, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Brazilian government; the role of Connaught Laboratories in the quality of the Brazilian smallpox vaccine; the process that brought certification of smallpox eradication in Brazil; international cooperation in eradicating smallpox and the various strategies applied; the role played by Brazilians in eradicating smallpox in India, Bangladesh, and Africa; and the future of the notion of disease eradication
Born in Cleveland in 1928 to parents who had immigrated to the United States from Canada, D.A. studied medicine at the University of Rochester
Appointed director of the WHO smallpox program in 1966, Henderson faced a series of immense challenges with a relatively small budget, but managed to implement an effective vaccination and epidemiology program which concentrated its efforts on the smallpox-infected areas of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, working with a multinational team of public health professionals
Summary
Previous page/Página anterior: Electron micrograph of smallpox virus virions, enlarged approximately 370,000 times/Micrografia eletrônica de virions do vírus da varíola, ampliados aprox. 370 mil vezes (http://migre.me/1ncNt). Previous page/Página anterior: Electron micrograph of smallpox virus virions, enlarged approximately 370,000 times/Micrografia eletrônica de virions do vírus da varíola, ampliados aprox. Pesquisador sênior da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
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