The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox
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The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox
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The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox
In this episode, we trace Donald Ainslie Henderson’s rise from Epidemic Intelligence Service field epidemiologist to the WHO director who organized seventy-three nations to pursue eradication. We cover the tactics, logistics and personal costs of the campaign and ask what comes next when the world asks him to do it again.
Person: Donald Ainslie Henderson
Event: Smallpox eradication campaign
Location: Geneva
Date of death: August 19, 2016
Cause of death: Fractured hip
- He joined the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and learned to “go where the outbreak was,” map transmission, and trace contacts.
- In 1966 he moved to Geneva with his wife Nana Irene Bragg to lead the WHO effort to eradicate smallpox.
- He organized operations across seventy-three nations while managing vaccine shortages, dangerous field conditions, and political resistance.
- He championed surveillance-and-containment and ring vaccination instead of mass campaigns, focusing on identifying cases and vaccinating contacts.
- After eleven years of field work, the global confirmed smallpox case count fell to zero in 1977, leaving Henderson forty-eight and facing new demands.
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