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Gilberto Hochman (right) and Donald\u00a0Henderson.<\/p><\/div>\n
Donald A. Henderson, a U.S. physician and epidemiologist, headed the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program from 1966 to 1977.\u00a0The program famously succeeded, and the global eradication of smallpox was announced on May 8, 1980.<\/p>\n
In this interview, Henderson talks about the endemic nature of smallpox in Brazil, the relations between WHO, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Brazilian government, international cooperation in eradicating smallpox and the various strategies applied.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0interview with Donald A. Henderson<\/a> was conducted by Gilberto Hochman (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz) and Steven Palmer (University of Windsor), in Baltimore, United States, on November 11, 2008 and was published in Manguinhos in 2010, in the Dossier Smallpox<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read in Manguinhos about smallpox:<\/p>\n Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson<\/span><\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Palmer, Steven, Hochman, Gilberto and Arbex, Danieli.\u00a0Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil<\/span><\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.777-790. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Agostoni, Claudia. 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>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2, p.355-370. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Soumonni, Elis\u00e9e. Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin<\/span><\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.35-45. ISSN 0104-5970<\/span><\/p>\n