Controversies and lessons from the history of smallpox: The case of massive vaccination in british corfu (1852)
dc.creator | Tsiamis C., Vrioni G., Dimopoulou C., Poulakou-Rebelakou E., Anoyatis-Pele D., Tsakris A. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-31T10:13:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-31T10:13:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 11249390 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/79914 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study presents an anti-vaccination action in the 19th century involving both scientific and political motiva-tion. The research is based on an unpublished archive, namely the registries of the British Executive Police during the massive vaccination campaign in Corfu, the cap-ital of the British possession in the Ionian Islands-Greece (1815-1864), after the smallpox outbreak of 1852. The archival material provides information about the num-ber of vaccinated people, namely their sex, age, nation-ality, the year of the previous vaccination, along with the last year when a citizen “had smallpox”. The records in-dicated 40,858 citizens and of these, a total 21,845 (53.46%) were vaccinated. Despite the impressive or-ganization, the vaccination project caused a great con-troversy at both the scientific and political level between the British authorities and the Greek Ionian Assembly. The archival material gives a diachronic message in the fields of public health, infectious disease control, and health crisis management. The lack of control by a State or local authority, combined with political instability and the public’s ignorance or distrust of scientific mat-ters, are the main factors behind the failure to prevent, restrict or eradicate infectious diseases even nowadays. © 2021, EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche. All rights reserved. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.source | Infezioni in Medicina | en |
dc.source.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85107456539&partnerID=40&md5=7acc227047d0349d9b391ffda07e6431 | |
dc.subject | smallpox vaccine | en |
dc.subject | smallpox vaccine | en |
dc.subject | Article | en |
dc.subject | communicable disease | en |
dc.subject | disease control | en |
dc.subject | epidemic | en |
dc.subject | female | en |
dc.subject | health legislation | en |
dc.subject | human | en |
dc.subject | infection control | en |
dc.subject | Ionian Sea | en |
dc.subject | male | en |
dc.subject | Middle Pleistocene | en |
dc.subject | smallpox | en |
dc.subject | vaccination | en |
dc.subject | communicable disease control | en |
dc.subject | epidemic | en |
dc.subject | ethnic group | en |
dc.subject | Greece | en |
dc.subject | history | en |
dc.subject | public health | en |
dc.subject | smallpox | en |
dc.subject | vaccination | en |
dc.subject | Communicable Disease Control | en |
dc.subject | Disease Outbreaks | en |
dc.subject | Ethnic Groups | en |
dc.subject | Greece | en |
dc.subject | History, 19th Century | en |
dc.subject | Humans | en |
dc.subject | Public Health | en |
dc.subject | Smallpox | en |
dc.subject | Smallpox Vaccine | en |
dc.subject | Vaccination | en |
dc.subject | EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche | en |
dc.title | Controversies and lessons from the history of smallpox: The case of massive vaccination in british corfu (1852) | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |
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