This page contains information about Island Health's Adult Mental Health and Substance Use Services for Nanaimo including Lantzville, Gabriola Island, and Cedar. Contact Us Call or arrive at the Crisis Counselling Clinic. No Appointment Necessary.ithdrawal Management Withdrawal Management can be provided at Clearview Detox. Referral is through the Crisis or Intake Team by your family doctor, or by walking into the Crisis Counselling Clinic at Brooks Landing 203-2000 Island Highway. The Clearview Detox contact number is 250-739-5891.
Once high levels of routine immunization have been achieved, national immunization days, followed by close monitoring and 'blitzing' of any outbreaks, can eliminate the disease. In all, vaccines have brought seven major human diseases under some degree of control - smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, whooping cough, polio, and measles. Photo: Pain now, gain later - vaccines currently in use are saving the lives of three million children a year.Â©.
Smallpox is an extremely contagious and deadly virus for which there is no known cure. The last known case occurred in the U.S. in 1949 and due to worldwide vaccination programs, this disease has been completely eradicated.Smallpox is also known as âvariola.â. Since the time of ancient Egypt, smallpox has proven to be one of the most devastating diseases to humankind.s a result of worldwide, repeated vaccination programs, the variola virus (smallpox) has been completely eradicated. The only people considered to be at risk for smallpox are researchers who work with it in a laboratory setting.