The confirmation and maintenance of smallpox eradication.
The New England journal of medicine·
- DOI
- 10.1056/nejm198011273032204
- PMID
- 6252467
- PMCID
- —
- OpenAlex
- —
- Study type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Publisher unavailable
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
A key post-certification account of how eradication status was confirmed and guarded.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
How was smallpox eradication confirmed and what maintenance measures were needed afterward?
Study design
Historical public-health review.
Population and setting
This field has not yet received a quality-gated evidence summary. Consult the original article.
Main findings
This field has not yet received a quality-gated evidence summary. Consult the original article.
Public-health relevance
Connects surveillance verification, vaccination history, and post-eradication policy.
Important limitations
Limitations could not be fully assessed from the available metadata.
GIDS interpretation
Useful as a benchmark for eradication and elimination concepts across infectious diseases.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 7 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.