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Faith Tabernacle smallpox epidemic, Abakaliki, Nigeria
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1968
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Description:During the last week in May 1967, a case of smallpox was reported in Abakaliki urban, the site of a mass smallpox and measles immunization programme in February 1967. Investigation revealed that there were other cases and that they all belonged to a small religious group that had refused to be vaccinated.
Report by David Thompson and William H. Foege, epidemiologists, National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
WHO/SE/68.3
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