Slepushkin A N, Mukhopad V A
Vopr Virusol. 1986 May-Jun;31(3):342-6.
In carrying out emergency smallpox control campaign in Uttar Pradesh State of India in the spring of 1973 the authors developed and first tried in a large-scale field work a new system of smallpox control consisting in repeated weekly search of cases in the entire territory of the affected district followed by intensive suppression of the discovered foci of the disease by vaccination. This new strategy for smallpox eradication was officially adopted since October, 1973, in the smallpox eradication programme in India. The new system was widely used for smallpox control in the last smallpox-endemic countries of the Hindustan peninsula which significantly speeded up smallpox eradication.
1973年春，在印度北方邦开展紧急天花防治运动时，作者们开发并首次在大规模实地工作中尝试了一种新的天花防治系统，该系统包括每周在受影响地区全境反复搜索病例，随后通过接种疫苗对发现的疾病疫点进行强化控制。自1973年10月起，这种新的根除天花策略在印度的天花根除计划中正式采用。该新系统在印度半岛最后几个天花流行国家被广泛用于天花防治，大大加快了天花的根除进程。
