Mass B.C.G. Vaccination in a British Colony
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‘Fight TB with BCG’: Mass Vaccination Campaigns in the British Caribbean, 1951–6
Based on a wide range of primary materials, including WHO reports and Colonial Office correspondence, this article examines the UNICEF/WHO-funded mass BCG campaigns that were carried out in seven Caribbean colonies between 1951 and 1956. It explores the reasons behind them, their nature and aftermath and also compares them to those in other non-European countries and discusses them within a con...
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BCG VACCINATION. Studies by the WHO Tuberculosis Research Office, Copenhagen. Report prepared under the direction of Lydia B. Edwards and Carroll E. Palmer with the assistance of Knut Magnus. Monograph Series No. 12. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1953. 307 pp. 15/-, $3.00, Sw. fr. 12.This monograph contains the results of an inquiry into the variable factors that affect BCG vaccination. Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4736.884