For example, in 1951 the SGHMP ... in the 1950s, when penicillin became cheap enough, UNICEF and WHO sponsored mass injection campaigns against yaws in Africa. The annual number of those treated during the campaign ranged from 615, 000 per year in Ghana, to 925,000 in French West Africa and one million in Nigeria, according to WHO and UNICEF reports.25 · Although the number of treatments for these other diseases approached the magnitude of the smallpox vaccinations ...

3 days ago - Smallpox has had a major impact ... and colonization. During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness. Between 20 and 60% of all those infected—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease. During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. In the early 1950s an estimated ...

Smallpox in Africa during Colonial Rule - Volume 53 Issue 2

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August 12, 2024 - The Portuguese established several settlements along the Gold Coast in pursuit of acquiring gold.[1]

One of the deadliest diseases known to humans, smallpox remains the only human disease to have been eradicated. Many believe this achievement to be the most significant milestone in global public health.

Beyond the early years of postcolonialism, religion remained vital in formulating the meanings and practice of health development in Ghana, and in global health more widely. During the remaking of modern Germany, through aid tied to Catholic medical mission and financing, global health was ...

1 month ago - Today, the only remaining vestiges ... were a Danish county until 1948, while Greenland's colonial status ceased in 1953. They are now autonomous territories within the Kingdom of Denmark with home rule, in a relationship referred to as the "Unity of the Realm". Denmark-Norway maintained several trading stations and four forts along the Gold Coast in West Africa, especially around modern day Ghana...

October 13, 2024 - The practice was widespread among enslaved colonial people from many regions of Africa and, throughout the slave trade in the Americas, slave communities continued the practice of inoculation despite regional origin. Mather followed Onesimus's medicinal advice because, as Margot Minardi writes, "inferiority had not yet been indelibly written onto the bodies of Africans." Additionally, Mather believed that disease, specifically smallpox...

In the late nineteenth century smallpox epidemics usually occurred during or at the end of famines. Many historians have noted the relationship of sma…

3 weeks ago - Studies of smallpox cases in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s demonstrated that the fatality rate among persons vaccinated less than 10 years before exposure was 1.3 percent; it was 7 percent among those vaccinated 11 to 20 years prior, and 11 percent among those vaccinated 20 or more years before ...

November 6, 2024 - The Danish Gold Coast (Danish: Danske Guldkyst or Dansk Guinea) comprised the colonies that Denmark–Norway controlled in Africa as a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day southeast Ghana), which is on the Gulf of Guinea. It was colonized by the Dano-Norwegian fleet, first under indirect ...

November 6, 2024 - Learn about the history of smallpox and its eradication.

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Human monkeypox has never been reported in Ghana, but rodents captured in forested areas of southern Ghana were the source of the monkeypox virus introduced into the United States in 2003. Subsequent to the outbreak in the United States, 204 animals ...

The mortality from smallpox had declined, but the regular occurrence of epidemics indicated that the disease was still not under control. In the 1950s many countries implemented various control measures, and smallpox was finally eradicated in many areas in Europe and North America (4).

March 25, 2022 - A practice introduced to American colonists by an enslaved African has saved countless millions around the world from dying of smallpox.

Smallpox and its eradication was published by WHO in 1988 (ISBN: 92 4 156110 6). It contains illustrative material both from WHO and from other published sources, as indicated. In the case of the latter, the copyright holders granted WHO permission to reproduce their material in this book · ...