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Scourge : the once and future threat of smallpox
- Title
- Scourge : the once and future threat of smallpox / Jonathan B. Tucker.
- Author
- Tucker, Jonathan B.
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2001], ©2001.
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- Description
- 291 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this deadly disease, the heroic efforts to eradicate it worldwide, and the looming dangers it still poses today."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Smallpox > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Monster on Death Row -- 2. Smallpox and Civilization -- 3. Dr. Jenner's Vaccine -- 4. Launching the Crusade -- 5. Global Eradication -- 6. Long Road to Zero -- 7. Realm of the Final Inch -- 8. The Soviet Betrayal -- 9. Stay of Execution -- 10. Washington Reconsiders -- 11. Decision in Geneva -- 12. The Unfinished Conquest.
- ISBN
- 0871138301
- LCCN
- 2001022913
- OCLC
- 46729376
- ocm46729376
- SCSB-4202934
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries