A Somali patient enters eradication history

Its resolution launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization to extend routine childhood protection.

The programme sought to widen access to vaccines against major childhood diseases.

The resolution called for stronger national programmes, supplies and trained health workers.

The 1974 resolution provided a basis for subsequent national immunization efforts.

Ali Maow Maalin developed the rash of the last known naturally occurring smallpox case.

Health workers traced contacts and responded to prevent further natural smallpox transmission.

This 1977 illness came before the World Health Assembly declared global eradication in 1980.

The report of an October 1977 expert meeting documents the initial essential-drugs approach.

The model list focused attention on drugs considered most important for priority care.

Countries could adapt the WHO model to their own disease burden and health services.