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Big Red Book — Smallpox and its Eradication. (WHO, 1988). WHO's official 1500-page history of the Smallpox Eradication Programme. Full text and individual chapters

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  • Smallpox — Clinical features and epidemiology; laboratory research; laboratory diagnosis; therapy and prophylaxis
  • Vaccine — Research and development; production
  • Vaccination — Techniques; complications and contraindications; multiple antigens; vaccination policy; variolation
  • Operational principles and procedures — Handbook for smallpox eradication programmes in endemic countries; organization of eradication campaigns; surveillance/containment; assessment; cooperation and coordination; operations and logistics
  • Post-eradication activities — Post-eradication recommendations of the Global Commission variola virus destruction; variola and orthopoxvirus research; vaccine reserves; other
  • Orthopoxviruses and other diseases — Orthopoxviruses (monkeypox and other animal pox viruses); Other diseases (chickenpox, measles, viral hemorrhagic fevers [Ebola, Marburg, Lassa])
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  • Smallpox surveillance reports — in WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
  • Target Zero progress reports — Distributed to SEP field staff
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