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vaccinations, number of, as metric,
93
,
97

vaccination strategy: critical shift in,
11
; in nineteenth-century India,
93–96
.
See also
mass vaccination; surveillance and containment approach

vaccination teams: in Nigeria,
59
; Peace Corps volunteers and,
27
.
See also
containment teams; health workers

vaccination techniques: advances in,
48–52
,
101–102
; dilution and,
24–25
,
51
; instruction sheet on,
109
,
197
; multiple pressure vaccination technique,
49
; in nineteenthcentury India,
94
; possibilities for global eradication and,
10
.
See also
jet injector

vaccinators.
See
health workers

vaccine: delivery of, in India,
92–93
; dilution of,
24–25
,
51
; freeze-drying and,
104
; production in affected countries,
10
,
48
,
94
,
95
,
104
; sources of,
94
,
99
; standards for,
48–49
,
104
.
See also
supplies

vaccinia virus,
75

van Bibber, Dr. (Lincoln's physician),
7

variola minor,
185–186

variolation: development of,
40
; in India,
89
,
91
,
95–96
; Jenner and,
8–9
; in Old World,
40–42

Washington, George,
6–7

watch guards,
152
,
153

Watson, William,
133

Weller, Tom,
25–26
,
200n8

West Africa,
72–75

West and Central African Smallpox Eradication/Measles Control Program
(CDC handbook),
76

West Bengal, India,
106
,
121
,
177

World Health Assembly (WHA),
10
,
27
,
47
–
48
,
98

World Health Organization (WHO),
10
; archival records and,
143–144
; CDC involvement and,
84
,
160
; Ethiopian program and,
185–186
; improvement of tools and,
189
; program in India and,
100–102
,
104
,
105
,
117
,
129–131
,
155
,
164
; program in Nigeria and,
46–53
; surveillance and containment approach and,
74
,
75–76
.
See also
Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO)

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,
101
,
205n30