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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The efforts made in the eradication [[smallpox]] were cost-effective since the disease was successfully eradicated in 1980. | |||
==Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy== | ==Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy== | ||
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Overview
The efforts made in the eradication smallpox were cost-effective since the disease was successfully eradicated in 1980.
Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy
At this point in time, the biggest form of cost comes in the form of the vaccine. Originally, the overall cost needed to be brought down and of the biggest breakthroughs for the smallpox vaccine was the bifurcated needle. The bifurcated needle greatly reduced costs and improved the ease of vaccination. About 1,000 needles cost only $5. The needles could actually be boiled and reused hundreds of times. Also, since these needles required a smaller amount of vaccine, the vials of vaccine could now vaccinate 4 times as many people. This was very important because there were certain countries that could not afford any sort of vaccination above a very minimal cost. Around the same time period, there was a measles vaccine that cost approximately $1/vaccine. This was a price that was far too high.
The actual cost of vaccination depended upon the country. For more of the developed countries, it has been estimated that it cost $50 million/year while the eradication process was occurring. In some of the endemic countries, it cost approximately $10 million/year. It has been estimated that the total global cost was in excess of $1.35 billion in the late 1960s.