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From: Anne Rothfeld <anne.rothfeld@GMAIL.COM>
List Editor: Anne Rothfeld <anne.rothfeld@GMAIL.COM>
Editor's Subject: New Resource: Eradication of smallpox
Author's Subject: New Resource: Eradication of smallpox
Date Written: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:29:04 -0400
Date Posted: Fri, 29 Oct 2009 09:29:04 -0400

Announcement of a new medical history resource.
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From: David Sencer [mailto:djud@MINDSPRING.COM]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University today
announced a new web site devoted to documenting and preserving public health
history.  The emphasis will be on oral histories, unpublished documents,
photographs and artifacts.  The site is  <http://globalhealthchronicles.org>
http://globalhealthchronicles.org.

The initial chronicle is devoted to the eradication of smallpox.  There are
50 oral histories and 30 presentations at seminars held in conjunction with
two reunions of staff who worked in the field during the eradication
program.  Admittedly it emphasizes the role of CDC and the United States and
does not reflect the hundreds of thousands of health workers who were the
backbone of the effort.  The project is not static and will add materials as
it becomes available.  If members of this list have materials they would
like to make available please contact me off the list at
<mailto:djud@mindspring.com> djud@mindspring.com.

If you have an opportunity to record your experiences we will digitize them
for addition. If your have artifacts that you would like to share we will
digitize them
and return to you.  If you are in Atlanta we can arrange for a video oral
history interview.  Trip reports and diaries are great.  We have some
digitized but realized that they had patients' names and even though they
were village children in India we felt we should redact the names.  They
will soon be uploaded to the site.  Anything submitted will be credited to
the submitter.

There is a short video on how to use the site at
<http://drop.io/smallpoxarchive> http://drop.io/smallpoxarchive

We realize there are some bugs, and are fixing them as we go.  So if you
have comments send them to me at, djud@mindspring.com

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