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The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?

The current health emergency caused by COVID-19 disease shows several similarities with well-known epidemics of the past. The knowledge of their management and overcoming could give us useful tools to face the present COVID-19 pandemic. The Bourbon king Ferdinand I planned the first free large-scale...

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Autores principales: Bifulco, Maurizio, Di Zazzo, Erika, Pisanti, Simona, Martini, Mariano, Orsini, Davide
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9073592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35534315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.052
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author Bifulco, Maurizio
Di Zazzo, Erika
Pisanti, Simona
Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
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Di Zazzo, Erika
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description The current health emergency caused by COVID-19 disease shows several similarities with well-known epidemics of the past. The knowledge of their management and overcoming could give us useful tools to face the present COVID-19 pandemic. The Bourbon king Ferdinand I planned the first free large-scale mass vaccination programme conducted in Italy and one of the first in Europe to counteract smallpox. The vaccination campaign was characterized by many difficulties and the efforts made by the Southern Kingdoms governors were enormous. For example, the “ante litteram communication campaign”, aimed at convincing the so-called “hesitant” people and at confuting the arguments of vaccination opponents, was impressive. In 1821, the compulsory vaccination significantly reduced smallpox infections and death rates. Subsequently, several experiences followed this initiative, not without doubts and debates. Smallpox was finally eradicated worldwide only on the 9(th) December 1979. Despite to other countries, the “mandatory vaccination” is a topic often debated by Italian scientific and social communities.
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spelling pubmed-90735922022-05-06 The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon? Bifulco, Maurizio Di Zazzo, Erika Pisanti, Simona Martini, Mariano Orsini, Davide Vaccine Article The current health emergency caused by COVID-19 disease shows several similarities with well-known epidemics of the past. The knowledge of their management and overcoming could give us useful tools to face the present COVID-19 pandemic. The Bourbon king Ferdinand I planned the first free large-scale mass vaccination programme conducted in Italy and one of the first in Europe to counteract smallpox. The vaccination campaign was characterized by many difficulties and the efforts made by the Southern Kingdoms governors were enormous. For example, the “ante litteram communication campaign”, aimed at convincing the so-called “hesitant” people and at confuting the arguments of vaccination opponents, was impressive. In 1821, the compulsory vaccination significantly reduced smallpox infections and death rates. Subsequently, several experiences followed this initiative, not without doubts and debates. Smallpox was finally eradicated worldwide only on the 9(th) December 1979. Despite to other countries, the “mandatory vaccination” is a topic often debated by Italian scientific and social communities. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-05-31 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9073592/ /pubmed/35534315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.052 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title_full The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title_fullStr The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title_full_unstemmed The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title_short The nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two Sicilies on mandatory vaccination: An Italian phenomenon?
title_sort nineteenth-century experience of the kingdom of the two sicilies on mandatory vaccination: an italian phenomenon?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9073592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35534315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.052
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