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Summary: Importations to Non-Endemic Countries 1961-1973


Year Title Authors Journal URL
1970 Smallpox Surveillance Report No. 48, 9 Oct 1970
Europe: Importations 1961-1970
Smallpox unit, WHO Wkly Epidemol Rec 1970 45(41):453-8 DAH: Chesney Med Arch
1970 An airborne outbreak of smallpox in a German hospital and its significance with respect to other recent outbreaks in Europe PF Wehrle, J Posch, KH Richter, DA Henderson Bull World Health Organ 1970 43(5):669-79 PMCID: PMC2427800
1972 Smallpox in Europe, 1950-1971 Mack TM J Infect Dis 1972 125(2):161-9 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/125.2.161
1974 Importations of smallpox into Europe, 1961-1973 Henderson DA WHO/SE/74.62
and WHO Chron 1974 28: 428-30
WHO: 10665/67627

Country Year Importations Cases Deaths Mortality Rate
Belgium 1961
1968
Total
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
-
1
100%
-
50%
Czechoslovakia 1967 1 1 - -
Denmark 1970 1 2 1 50%
East Germany 1959 1 1 - -
Germany 1958-59
1961
1965
1967
1969
Total
1
3
1
2
1
8
20
43
2
3
20
88
2
4
-
-
4
10
10%
9%
-
-
20%
11%
Poland 1962
1963
Total
1
1
2
33
100
133
-
7
7
-
7%
5%
Spain 1961 1 17 3 18%
Sweden 1962 1 27 4 15%
Switzerland 1963 1 1 - -
United Kingdom






Laboratory-associated
1959
1960
1961
1962
1967
1968
1973
1978
Total
1
1
3
3
1
1
1
1
12
1
1
19
51
2
1
1
2
77
-
-
7
19
-
-
-
1
27
-
-
37%
37%
-
-
-
50%
35%
USSR 1959
1961
Total
2
2
4
47
2
49
3
-
3
6%
-
6%
Yugoslavia 1972 1 176 35 20%
Total 35 574 91 16%