The Nature of Things

The Search: Smallpox Eradication (19x11)

Air date: Dec 24, 1978

"The Search" follows World Health Organization medical teams on their campaign to vaccinate the Somali against smallpox. Most of the natives of this African country are nomads, and the program focuses on the difficulty of containing outbreaks of the deadly disease, a chore that involves house-to-house searches in which everyone is treated.