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 ...

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Smallpox in Africa during Colonial Rule - Volume 53 Issue 2

August 16, 2024 - 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 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.

The origin of smallpox is unknown. The finding of smallpox-like rashes on Egyptian mummies suggests that smallpox has existed for at least 3,000 years. The earliest written description of a disease like smallpox appeared in China in the 4th century CE (Common Era).

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July 20, 2024 - 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 maintained several trading stations and four forts along the Gold Coast in West Africa, especially around modern day Ghana...

September 4, 2023 - Smallpox inoculation coexisted with other forms of inoculation in these societies. For example, we find examples of enslaved Africans who hailed from present-day Ghana describing inoculations for yaws, another contagious flesh disorder.

September 3, 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 ...

Vaccine research and studies in vaccine delivery were carried out around the world in the search for more resilient and effective vaccines. By the 1950s, advances in production techniques meant that heat-stable, freeze-dried smallpox vaccines could be stored without refrigeration.

4 days ago - During the eighteenth century a string of settlements were established along the western coast of Greenland, and the Danish presence there assumed a more outright colonial character than in the other Atlantic dependencies, which might be seen as settler colonies.

Smallpox inoculation in Africa - Volume 16 Issue 4

New York University PhD student Elise A. Mitchell talks about her project ‘Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in the Greater Caribbean’.

Smallpox was thought to be a disease ... of shrines to the god. People believed that the priests themselves were capable of causing smallpox outbreaks. Even though the British colonial rulers banned the worship of Shapona in 1907, worship of the deity continued....

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).

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 were ...

Introduction: Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks irreparable havoc amongst the indigenous and colonist population of the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Hardest hit are the indigenous Khoisan people.

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 ...

September 8, 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...