Smallpox in Abakaliki, Nigeria, 1967

These data comprise of 32 cases of smallpox in Abakaliki, Nigeria in 1967, first described by Thompson and Foege (1968), which occurred predominantly in a religious group that refused medical interventions.

smallpox_abakaliki_1967

Format

A data frame with 32 rows and 8 columns

case_ID

Case identification number

date_of_onset

Date of onset of symptoms

age

Age in years

gender

Gender: female (f) or male (m) (factor)

vaccinated

Previously vaccinated: no (n) or yes (y) (factor)

vaccscar

Vaccination scar present: no (n) or yes (y) (factor)

ftc

Member of the Faith Tabernacle: no (n) or yes (y) (factor)

compound

Compound number (factor)

Source

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/67462/1/WHO_SE_68.3.pdf

References

D. Thompson and W. Foege. 1968. Faith Tabernacle smallpox epidemic. Abakaliki, Nigeria. World Health Organization, 3:1–9

Author

Data from Thompson and Foege (1968). Transfer to R and documentation by Simon Frost
(sdwfrost@gmail.com).

Examples

## show first few cases
head(smallpox_abakaliki_1967)
#>   case_ID date_of_onset age gender vaccinated vaccscar ftc compound
#> 1       1    1967-04-05  10      f          n        n   y        1
#> 2       2    1967-04-18  25      f          n        n   y        1
#> 3       3    1967-04-25  35      m          n        n   y        1
#> 4       4    1967-04-27   4      f          n        n   y        1
#> 5       5    1967-04-30  11      m          n        n   y        1
#> 6       6    1967-04-30   1      m          n        n   y        1