Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India, 1947-1977.

As a crucial component of the global smallpox eradication programme, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest public health successes in the 20th century, the Indian experience has some important stories to tell. Expunging Variola reveals these as it chronicles the last three decades of the anti-smallpox campaigns in India.