Reading 12 – MU Sofia

P1. Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human invention. Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human intervention. Known as a highly contagious viral disease, it broke out in Europe, causing the deaths of millions of people until the vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner around 1800. In many nations, it was a terror, a fatal disease until very recently. Its victims suffer high fever, vomiting and painful, itchy, pustules that left scars. In villages and cities all over the world, people were worried about suffering smallpox.
P2. In May, 1966, the World Health Organization (WHO) , an agency of the United Nations was authorized  to initiate a global campaign to eradicate smallpox . The goal was to eliminate the disease in one decade . At the time , the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations . Because similar projects for malaria and yellow fever had failed , few believed that  smallpox could actually be eradicated but eleven years after the initial organization of the campaign no cases were reported in the field.
P3. The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccinations but also to isolate patients with active smallpox in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human  transmission . Rewards for reporting smallpox assisted in motivating removed from contact with others and treated . at the same time , the entire village where the victim had lived was vaccinated
P4. By April of 1978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease but health workers continued to search for new cases for two additional years to be completely sure . In may , 1980, a formal statement was made to the global community . Today smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?