There are 20 million people on the road at any time, in buses and trains, walking; 500,000 villages, 120 million households, and none of them wanted to report if they had a case of smallpox in their house, because they thought that smallpox was the visitation of a deity, Shitala Mata, the cooling mother, and it was wrong to bring strangers into your house when the deity was in the house. No incentive to report smallpox.
那个年代的任意时刻，都会有两千万的人不是在汽车上 就是在火车上或在路上，我们走遍了50座村庄，走访了1.2亿户人家 但是没有人愿意跟我们说他们家有天花的个案 他们认为感染天花是因为有天神降临 那天神就是Shitala Mata, 降温女神 另外，把 陌生人带到屋子里也是不被接受的 因为神就在屋子里，所以没有人愿意报告天花的案例