World Health Organization : Development of Health Services, Smallpox Eradication, No. 77.1: The Nepal Smallpox Eradication Programme Description and Analysis

By World Health Organization

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Development of Health Services, Smallpox Eradication, No. 77.1: The Nepal Smallpox Eradication Programme Description and Analysis
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Description
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Excerpt
1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Nepal is a land-locked kingdom situated between India and the Tibetan region of China. thas a population of about 12.5 million who livein an area of 54 136 square miles, formed in a rough rectangle 100 miles by 500 miles, which extends in a north-west to south-east direction along the Himalayas. Fig. 1 shows population projections for Nepal.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Background information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ethnic composition. economic activity and their effect on smallpox . . . . . . 8 2 . Organization of the health services and the smallpox eradication programme . . . . . 12 3 . Evolutionof strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4 . The reporting of smallpox in Nepal since 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 5 . Smallpox transmission during 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6 . Smallpox transmission during 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Outbreaks in Bagmati zone . 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41