Template:Did you know nominations/Surinder Singh Bakhshi - Wikipedia

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The result was: promoted by Graearms (talk) 19:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

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Surinder Singh Bakhshi

• ... that Surinder Singh Bakhshi (pictured) led the successful containment of smallpox in the community during Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in 1978? Source: Bakhshi was faced with the task of saving Britain’s second largest city from smallpox....[he] was responsible for containing the virus in the community. Birmingham was officially declared free of smallpox on 16 October 1978... The containment had been a huge success [1][2]
  • ALT1: ... that Surinder Singh Bakhshi (pictured) led a successful contact-tracing and quarantine effort during the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom?
  • Reviewed: Cowbridge Girls School

Created by Whispyhistory (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Whispyhistory (talk) at 04:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC).

• New and long enough, within policy, Earwig finds no copyvios, QPQ done, hooks check out. Good to go! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 05:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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