Tag: Dr Ayyagari Ramachandra Rao
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Handling vaccines, in 1803
Recently, I was asked to give a talk for around ten minutes on the life of Dr WS Swami Naick, whose life needs no introduction to regulars of Madras Musings. Briefly put, he was born in the 1760s and joined the Madras Army as a medical assistant. He found his true calling however, when he was…
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How Madras eradicated smallpox
When Michael Ryan, ED of WHO commented recently that India has enormous capacity for pandemic eradication, one of the examples cited was smallpox, which Madras had a major role in curing
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Slayer of Smallpox
Remembering Dr Ayyagari Ramachandra Rao who eradicated smallpox from our city, 50 years ago.
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