The World Health Organization's history of smallpox and its eradication. Both papers cite it as the case that met every condition for eradication: no animal reservoir, no carrier state, and lesions that made every case visible. Established agent lineages would fail most of these conditions, which is the escape ratchet (C1).
- Cited in
- both papers
- Used for
- C1Prediction 5
- Strand
- Domestication, invasion & eradication
Cite
@book{fenner1988smallpox,
title = {Smallpox and Its Eradication},
author = {F. Fenner and D. A. Henderson and I. Arita and Z. Ježek and I. D. Ladnyi},
year = {1988},
publisher = {World Health Organization (Geneva)},
}