| Country | Last endemic case | Importations during SEP | Certification | Method | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh (East Pakistan)1 | 1970, 1975 | None post-1975 | 14 Dec 1977 | Intl Commission | SEA/Smallpox/84 |
| Bhutan | 1920 | 1967, 1968, 1973, 1974 | 22 Apr 1977 | Intl Commission | SEA/Smallpox/80 |
| India | 1975 | None post-1975 | 23 Apr 1977 | Intl Commission | SEA/Smallpox/78 |
| Indonesia | 1972 | None post-1972 | 25 Apr 1974 | Intl Commission | WHO/SE/74.68 |
| Myanmar (Burma)2 | 1965 | 1968, 1969 | 30 Nov 1977 | Intl Commission | SEA/Smallpox/83 |
| Nepal | 1975 | None post-1975 | 13 Apr 1977 | Intl Commission | SEA/Smallpox/80 |
| Sri Lanka (Ceylon)3 | 1951 | 1967, 1972 | Official statement of smallpox-free status | ||
| Thailand | 1962 | None | 7 Dec 1978 | Visit and detailed country report | WHO/SE/78.132 pp 7,21 |
* Cited in Smallpox and its Eradication, Fenner et al, WHO 1988
WHO documents are in italics
| Year | Title | Authors | Source | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Smallpox outbreak field form—17 Jan 1975, Bihar, India | SEP | DAH: Chesney Med Arch | |
| 1995 | [Smallpox control in Indochina: variolation vs vaccination?] French | Guenel A | Hist Philos Life Sci 1995 17(1):55-79 | |
| 1968 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #1, 7 Jun 1968 Asia |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1968 43(23):290-1 | WHO: 10665/216623 |
| 1968 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #6, 16 Aug 1968 Asia |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1968 43(33):408-9 | WHO: 10665/216745 |
| 1968 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #10, 11 Oct 1968 Asia. India |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1968 43(41):524-8 | WHO: 10665/216842 |
| 1968 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #11, 25 Oct 1968 Asia. Pakistan. Worldwide cases 1956-67 |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1968 43(43):552-6 | WHO: 10665/216865 |
| 1968 | SEARO: Projections for vaccination, vaccine requirements, and expenditures: 1968, 1969, 1970 | Meeting of Regional Advisers on Smallpox Eradication. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-10 Apr 1968 | DAH: Chesney Med Arch | |
| 1970 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #50, 20-Nov 1970 Asia |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1970 45(47):520-3 | WHO: 10665/218025 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1970 | Review of the status of smallpox in the South-East Asia Region Inter-Regional Seminar on Surveillance and Assessment in Smallpox Eradication. New Delhi, India, 30 Nov - 5 Dec 1970 |
Oles A | WHO/SE/71.30:13-23 Also issued as SE/WP/70.3 |
WHO: 10665/67488 WHO: 10665/68072 |
| 1972 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #77, 1 Sep 1972 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1972 47(35):330-2 | WHO: 10665/219056 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1972 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #79, 29 Sep 1972 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1972 47(39):371-3 | WHO: 10665/219096 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1972 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #80, 20 Oct 1972 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1972 47(42):398-401 | WHO: 10665/219124 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1972 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #82, 1 Dec 1972 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1972 47(48):470-2 | WHO: 10665/219174 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #85, 2 Feb 1973 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(5):69-71 | WHO: 10665/219247 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #87, 6 Mar 1973 Asian sub-continent. Importation: UK |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(11):126-9 | WHO: 10665/219303 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #89, 13 Apr 1973 Asian sub-continent, Botswana, Uganda. Importation: Japan. Outbreak: UK [Birmingham] |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(15):167-70 | WHO: 10665/219341 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #92, 29 Jun 1973 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(26):264-6 | WHO: 10665/219443 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #96, 21 Sep 1973 Asian sub-continent |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(38):370-3 | WHO: 10665/219548 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #98, 16 Nov 1973 Asian sub-continent. Botswana. Importations: Somalia, French Territory of the Afars and Issas, Nepal |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1973 48(46):434-8 | WHO: 10665/219623 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1973 | [Duration of vaccination immunity to smallpox (epidemiological observation in Southeast Asia)] Russian | Vishniakov VE | Tr Leningr Nauchno Issled Inst Epidemiol Mikrobiol 1973 42:163-8 | |
| 1973 | [Smallpox and traditional medicine in the developing countries of Africa and Asia] German | Serý V | Z Tropenmed Parasitol 1973 24(1):105-18 | |
| 1973 | [Duration of vaccination immunity to smallpox (epidemiological observation in Southeast Asia)] Russian | Vishniakov VE | Tr Leningr Nauchno Issled Inst Epidemiol Mikrobiol 1973 42: 163-8 | |
| 1975 | Smallpox Surveillance Report #119, 8 Aug 1975 Asian sub-continent. Ethiopia. Smallpox Count-down introduced |
Smallpox unit, WHO | Wkly Epidemol Rec 1975 50(32):281-5 | WHO: 10665/220472 DAH: Chesney Med Arch |
| 1977 | [Latest steps taken in the eradication of smallpox in Asia] Polish | Kostrzewski J | Przegl Epidemiol 1977 31(4):361-73 | |
| 1980 | [Smallpox eradication in Southeast Asia] Russian | Slepushkin AN, Khodakevich LN | Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 1980 (3):3-8 |
For more information, see:
| Year | Title | Authors | Source | URL |
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* Cited in Smallpox and its Eradication, Fenner et al, WHO 1988
WHO documents are in italics
| Year | Title | Authors | Source | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | [Seeds against smallpox: Joaquim Vas and the scientific translation of bananeira brava seeds in Goa, India (1894-1930)] Portuguese, Engl abstract | Roque R | Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos 2004 11 Suppl 1:183-222 | DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702004000400010 |
| *1945 | Smallpox and vaccination in British India during the last seventy years | Rogers L | Proc R Soc Med 1945 38(3):135-40 | PMC: PMC2181657 |
| 1963 | History of smallpox in Bihar | Chatterjee SR | Swasth Hind 1963 7: 263-4 | |
| *1978 | Variolation in the Rajasthan desert | Davis C | WHO/SE/77.92 and Indian J Public Health 1978 22(1):134-40 |
WHO: 10665/68212 |
| 1931 | A prophylactic (?) against smallpox | Biswas SK | Ind Med Gaz 1931 66(4):236-7 | PMC: PMC5185718 |
| 1961 | Smallpox in ayurveda | Roy A | Nagarjun (India) 1961 5: 303-18 | |
| 1958 | Smallpox in Uttar Pradesh (1877-1954) | Lal KM, Chand D, Murty GS | J Indian Med Assoc 1958 30(4): 120-6 | |
| *1981 | The goddess Sitala and epidemic smallpox in Bengal | Nicholas RW | J Asian Stud 1981 41(1):21-45 | DOI: 10.2307/2055600 |
| 2009 | Borrowing, adapting, and learning the practices of smallpox: notes from colonial Goa | Bastos C | Bull Hist Med 2009 83(1):141-63 | DOI: 10.1353/bhm.0.0191 |
| 2009 | Pursuing protection from disease: the making of smallpox prophylactic practice in colonial Punjab | Minsky L | Bull Hist Med 2009 83(1):167-90 | DOI: 10.1353/bhm.0.0198 |
| 1845 | Report on small-pox in Calcutta, and vaccination in Bengal | Med Chir Rev 1845 2(4): 337-53 | PMC: PMC5097987 | |
| 1845 | Report on smallpox in Calcutta, 1833-4, 1837-8, 1843-4, and vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 | Br Foreign Med Rev 1845 20(40): 349-56 | PMC: PMC5613576 | |
| 1866 | Small-pox | Ind Med Gaz 1866 1(2): 37 | PMC: PMC5169926 | |
| 1866 | Epidemic small-pox and vaccine protection | Johnston JW | Ind Med Gaz 1866 1(9): 253-4 | PMC: PMC5170288 |
| 1868 | Small-pox hospital for Calcutta | Ind Med Gaz 1868 3(7): 159 | PMC: PMC5160981 | |
| 1869 | Report on the means adopted to stamp out small-pox at Umballa, 1869 | Tuson TE | Ind Med Gaz 1869 4(6): 115 | PMC: PMC5176711 |
| 1869 | Small-pox and vaccination in Bhurtpoor | Harvey R | Ind Med Gaz 1869 4(12): 257-8 | PMC: PMC5176832 |
| 1870 | Small-pox and vaccination in Bhurtpoor | Harvey R | Ind Med Gaz 1870 5(1): 8-10 | PMC: PMC5165404 |
| 1870 | Small-pox and vaccination in Bhurtpoor | Harvey R | Ind Med Gaz 1870 5(3): 51-4 | PMC: PMC5165511 |
| 1873 | Small-pox | Ind Med Gaz 1873 8(7): 192 | PMC: PMC5175917 | |
| 1874 | Small-pox in the central provinces in the year 1873 | Ind Med Gaz 1874 9(12): 328-30 | PMC: PMC5134665 | |
| 1875 | Report on an outbreak of small-pox in the Darjeeling district | Purves HB | Ind Med Gaz 1875 10(8): 203-4 | PMC: PMC5171033 |
| 1907 | On the incidence of small-pox in Calcutta | Vaughan JC | Ind Med Gaz 1907 42(7): 241-50 | PMC: PMC5165827 |
| 1918 | The injection of lymph as a protector against small-pox | Fearnside CF, Poi SG | Ind Med Gaz 1918 53(4): 140 | PMC: PMC5201654 |
| 1924 | A case of alastrim (Kaffir pox) | Mukerji BK | Ind Med Gaz 1924 59(2):89-90 | PMC: PMC5172660 |
| *1926 | Small-pox and climate in India. Forecasting of epidemics | Rogers L | Spec Rep Ser Med Res Counc (GB) 1926 106:3-23 | |
| 1927 | Notes on two cases of alastrim | Ghosh JM | Ind Med Gaz 1927 62(10):572 | PMC: PMC5197761 |
| 1927 | A short note on mild small-pox in Patna | Das JL | Ind Med Gaz 1927 62(11): 634 | PMC: PMC5197967 |
| 1929 | Alastrim or small-pox? | Nag SC | Ind Med Gaz 1929 64(2): 90 | PMC: PMC5164333 |
| 1930 | Further experience in forecasting epidemics of smallpox, plague, and cholera in India, and its bearing on the reduction of cholera | Rogers L | Proc R Soc Med 1930 23(6): 793-802 | PMC: PMC2182008 |
| 1930 | Forecast of the probable major variations in cholera, small-pox and plague in India during 1930, based on the meteorology of 1929 | Rogers L | Ind Med Gaz 1930 65(4): 181-5 | PMC: PMC5157418 |
| 1931 | Result of the forecast of cholera, smallpox and plague incidence in India in 1930, and new forecast for 1931 | Rogers L | Ind Med Gaz 1931 66(2): 61-5 | PMC: PMC5185653 |
| 1932 | Result of the forecast of cholera, smallpox and plague in India in 1931 and forecast for 1932 | Rogers L | Ind Med Gaz 1932 67(2): 61-3 | PMC: PMC5231437 |
| 1933 | Result of the forecast of cholera, smallpox and plague in India in 1932 and forecast for 1933 | Rogers L | Ind Med Gaz 1933 68(1): 1-3 | PMC: PMC5163578 |
| 1943 | An epidemic of small-pox in the Kolar Gold Fields area | Rao B, Natarajan CV | Ind Med Gaz 1943 78(6): 297-8 | PMC: PMC5158507 |
| 1944 | Smallpox in Calcutta | Ind Med Gaz 1944 79(7): 321 | PMC: PMC5218687 |
| 1945 | Prevention of smallpox by vaccination and revaccination: a critical study | Seal SC | Ind Med Gaz 1945 80(6):313-20 | PMC: PMC5218024 |
| 1945 | [Letter] Prevention of smallpox by vaccination and revaccination | Seal SC | Ind Med Gaz 1945 80(8):426 | PMC: PMC5218226 |
| 1946 | Prevention of small-pox | Paul JN | Indian Med Rec 1946 66:36-8 | |
| *1948 | Further work on forecasting smallpox epidemics in India and British tropical countries based on previous climatic data | Rogers L | J Hyg (Lond) 1948 46(1):19-33 | DOI: 10.1017/s0022172400036020 PMC: PMC2235070 |
| 1951 | My experience with smallpox [Jammu refugee camps] | Gupta CK | Ind Med Gaz 1951 86(5):216-7 | PMC: PMC5191746 |
| 1951 | Smallpox in India; a suggestion | Millard CK | Ind Med Gaz 1951 86(5):209-11 | PMC: PMC5191745 |
| 1951 | Smallpox in Calcutta | Ind Med Gaz 1951 86(5):205-6 | PMC: PMC5191750 | |
| 1952 | Experience of small-pox epidemic in Saharsa sub-district | Ukil SC | Indian Med J 1952 46(9):206-8 | |
| 1957 | Smallpox in Uttar Pradesh | Gupta NP, Yajnik BS, Murty GS | J Indian Med Assoc 1957 29(1): 15-9 | |
| *1958 | [Smallpox; impressions from an epidemic in Bombay in 1958] German | Herrlich A | Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1958 83(34):1426-8 | DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1113803 |
| 1958 | Influence of climate, season and sunlight on the incidence of smallpox | Murthy GS, Chand D, Lal KM | Indian J Public Health 1958 2:249-57 |