Have Yellow Fever and Smallpox been eradicated?

Answer 1

Small Pox yes, Yellow Fever no.

In 1980 WHO passed a declaration of the official eradication of smallpox after the late 1960s, programme of mass vaccination, and containment of infection by vaccinating close contacts of those infected. under the Global Intensified Eradication Programme, was highly successful. The last natural case of smallpox ocurred in Somalia in 1977.

Yellow fever occurs only in Africa and South America. In South America sporadic infections occur almost exclusively in forestry and agricultural workers from occupational exposure in or near forests.The Yellow Fever vaccine is not available through many family doctors and travellers usually must visit specially approved centres to have the Yellow Fever vaccination.A vaccination certificate may be required to enter an infected country, and/or when leaving an infected country and entering the next (non-infected) country.Once taken the vaccine is valid for 10 years.

Answer 2

Smallpox only exists in labs. We hope it never gets into the wild again. Yellow fever is in the wild. There are 200,000 estimated cases of yellow fever (with 30000 deaths) per year,

Answer 3

I agree with the above statements.

Smallpox only exist in lab. But we still worry about it because it can be used as in bioterrorism Remember NO ONE gets vaccinated for it any more so if someone intentionally released it the results can be devastating.

Answer 4

The criminal immigrants get screened previous to approval of visa. The illegals do no longer bypass by the right actual exam therefore would carry some affliction that they are unaware of.

Answer 5

small pox has been eradicated only a few samples exists in labs .

Answer 6

No. Just that they now happened rarely....