TY - JOUR
AU1 - Mack, Thomas M.
AU2 - Thomas, David B.
AU3 - Khan, Malik Muzaffar
AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 122, NO.6· DECEMBER 1970 © 1970 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Thomas M. Mack, * David B. Thomas,t and Malik Muzaffar Khan From the Pakistan Medical Research Center, Lahore, West Pakistan Most descriptions of the natural history of en­ outbreaks that extended into the period of time, demic smallpox study self-selected or capriciously May 1, 1966 to May 1, 1967, were included, and reported patients. Accounts of outbreaks resulting comprised, we estimate, more than three-fourths from importations into nonendemic areas suffer of all outbreaks in the district during the year. All from a different problem: although the outbreaks outbreak and case finding, interviewing, and exam­ are well studied, they are (fortunately) small, and ining were conducted by one or more of the au­ the cases derive from a setting representative only thors. of the circumstances of the individual importation. When an examiner entered a village experienc­ This study is an analysis of 1,040 patients com­ ing an outbreak, a list of compounds containing prising 121 outbreaks found by field investiga­ purported cases of smallpox was compiled from tion>" in one endemic district during a 12-month information supplied by the 
TI - Variola Major in West Pakistan
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/122.6.479
DA - 1970-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/variola-major-in-west-pakistan-XqwaTWJe9v
SP - 479
EP - 488
VL - 122
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -