Variola minor in England and Wales: the geographical course of a smallpox epidemic and the impediments to effective disease control, 1920–1935

The 1920–1935 epidemic of variola minor in England and Wales is a prime example of a major smallpox outbreak that spread in a national population with waning levels of vaccine-induced immunity. This paper examines the geographical course of the epidemic and the reasons why the disease was able to ev...

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Main Authors: Rafferty, Sarah, Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Cliff, Andrew D.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46461/