{"id":5944,"date":"2016-08-24T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2016-09-03T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T19:38:45","slug":"smallpox-eradication-and-brazil-an-interview-with-donald-a-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/smallpox-eradication-and-brazil-an-interview-with-donald-a-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">August 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5945\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0104-59702010000300011\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5945\" class=\"wp-image-5945 \" alt=\"22Henderson1-obit-master768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/22Henderson1-obit-master768.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/22Henderson1-obit-master768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/22Henderson1-obit-master768-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Donald A. Henderson administering a smallpox vaccination in Ethiopia, around 1972. Credit: WHO.<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-para-count=\"158\" data-total-count=\"158\">Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who led the World Health Organization\u2019s war on smallpox,\u00a0died on August 19, 2016 at the age of \u00a087. The\u00a0physician and epidemiologist\u00a0spent much of his time visiting smallpox-stricken countries, some of which were also caught up in civil wars.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"158\" data-total-count=\"158\">In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0104-59702010000300011\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> published by Marcos Cueto and Gilberto Hochman in Manguinhos (2010), Henderson talks about the endemic nature of smallpox in Brazil; relations between WHO and the Brazilian government; the quality of the Brazilian smallpox vaccine; and international cooperation in eradicating smallpox.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"158\" data-total-count=\"158\">Read more about smallpox in Manguinhos:<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"158\" data-total-count=\"158\">Agostoni, Claudia.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0104-59702015000200004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso\" target=\"_blank\">Control, contenci\u00f3n y educaci\u00f3n higi\u00e9nica en las campa\u00f1as de vacunaci\u00f3n contra la viruela en M\u00e9xico durante la d\u00e9cada de 1940<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2, p.355-370. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Henderson, who led the WHO\u2019s war on smallpox, died on August 19, 2016 at the age of 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[687,238,234],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","tag-donald-henderson","tag-smallpox","tag-smallpox-erradication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}