Article ID: CBB001420472

Smallpox Eradication, Laboratory Visits, and a Touch of Tourism: Travel Notes of a Canadian Scientist in Brazil (2010)

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The paper presents and discusses the travel notes diary of Canadian scientist Robert J. Wilson when he visited Brazil in April 1967 during the Smallpox Eradication Programme run by the World Health Organisation. Wilson's report makes it possible to reflect on the smallpox eradication campaign in Brazil; on the Canada-Brazil cooperation to improve the quality of the smallpox vaccine; on his assessment by of scientists and Brazilian laboratories; on the effects of intersections between scientific activity and social and cultural activities; on the role played by specialist communities of experts role in international scientific cooperation projects; and on a Canadian traveller's concepts and prejudices about Brazil at the end of the 1960s.

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Authors & Contributors
Hochman, Gilberto
Sarah Rafferty
Altink, Henrice
Willrich, Michael
Walloch, Karen L.
Suzuki, Akihito
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Epidemics
Vaccines; vaccination
Smallpox
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Brazil
Japan
Canada
Caribbean
Africa
Bangladesh
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Bank
United Nations
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
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