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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2415-8410</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2415-8429</issn><publisher><publisher-name>FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1601</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>MEMORIES: THE LAST OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX IN MOSCOW</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zuev</surname><given-names>Victor Abramovich</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>zuev.factor@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">Gamaleya National Center of Epedimiology and Microbiology</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><issue>1-2</issue><fpage>178</fpage><lpage>181</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-04-08"><day>08</day><month>04</month><year>2022</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2022,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>The article describes some episodes of the last outbreak of smallpox in Moscow (Russia) at the end of 1959 and the beginning of 1960. A Muscovite, who visited India, returned home with signs of ill health, and after contacting the district polyclinic, he was sent to the Botkin Clinical Hospital. In the emergency department, he was mistakenly diagnosed with influenza and was admitted to the general ward with influenza patients. The patients in the ward shortly developed skin lesions and those gave rise to a laboratory study of the imprint preparation, in which the variola virus was detected by a specialist in smallpox and smallpox vaccine. This fact served as the basis for the formation of the headquarters, which began to organize and carry out active therapeutic actions and launched a vaccination campaign in the shortest possible time in Moscow and Moscow region. Thanks to these actions, the outbreak was soon practically eliminated.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>history of medicine</kwd><kwd>Moscow</kwd><kwd>smallpox</kwd><kwd>vaccination of the population</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>история медицины</kwd><kwd>Москва</kwd><kwd>натуральная оспа</kwd><kwd>вакцинация населения</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Зуев В.А., Маренникова С.С. Это было так // Как это было: программа глобальной ликвидации оспы в воспоминаниях ее участников. Новосибирск: ЦЭРИС, 2011.276 c.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Гурвич Э.Б., Маненкова Г.М. Оспа в Москве, 1960: факты и цифры // Как это было: программа глобальной ликвидации оспы в воспоминаниях ее участников. Новосибирск: ЦЭРИС, 2011.276 c.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>Гурвич Э.Б. Начало пути и эпизоды из недавней истории борьбы с натуральной оспой // Как это было: программа глобальной ликвидации оспы в воспоминаниях ее участников. Новосибирск: ЦЭРИС, 2011.276 c.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>Маренникова С.С. Московский Сотрудничающий центр ВОЗ по оспе и родственным инфекциям // Как это было: программа глобальной ликвидации оспы в воспоминаниях ее участников. Новосибирск: ЦЭРИС, 2011. 276 c.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
