The Smallpox Extermination Campaign (CEV) was a movement conducted by the World Health Organization in 1965, with the objective of exterminates smallpox in the world. In Brazil, it was coordinated by the Minister of Health, which caused decentralization in some states, like São Paulo. The occurrence in this state was high, and this fact awoke the sanitarians' interest in obtain fast results. To conquer this objective, a committee was formed, linked to the state's health secretary, integrated with various professionals, including nurses. This study of a social-historic nature, that uses official documents, written between 1968 and 1973, reveals confirmation of the nurses' involvement in the training vaccinator programs, defining strategy of cover population and logistic coordination of the campaign.
History; Nursing; Mass Immunization; Immunization; Variola