Global disease eradication : the race for the last child /
Needham, Cynthia,1946-
Canning, Richard,1960-
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press,
c2003.
Includes bibliography and index.
Two children -- Swamps, farms, and bad air -- Escalating pressure -- Learning from the past -- Biology plays its hand -- Social issues loom large -- Fatal inflexibility -- The price of failure -- Forward to the present -- Magic bullets -- Malaria, man, and mosquito -- Fading scars -- From golden needles to vaccine -- Moving toward control -- Thinking about eradication -- Commitment, evolution, success -- Smallpox Zero -- The smallpox dividend -- An incomplete life -- Biologic realities -- The invisible disease -- The clearing picture -- President Roosevelt's other war -- The needs of the world -- Brazil's attack -- Coming to America -- Going global -- Measures of success, or failure -- The end game -- Another virus, another vaccine -- Biologic feasibility -- Financial resources -- Political will -- Social benefit -- The next campaign -- Christopher Plowe and the Abdoulaye Djimde: malaria warriors -- Donald Ainslie Henderson: politics and public health -- William Foege: legacy of a smallpox campaign -- Sharon Bloom: when politics are local -- Philip Spradling, from primary care to the mountains of Nepal -- Kathy Kohler, fulfilling a dream -- Alice Pope: a passion for people -- Duane Kilgus: from desk to desert -- Virginia Swezy: a champion in the final leg of the race -- Steve Stewart: roads and rivers -- Fabio Leviano: opening Pandora's box -- Donald Hopkins: the blowing of a certain trumpet -- Walter Dowdle: the leader people barely know exists --Steve Cochi: turning dreams into reality -- The World Health Organization.
Epidemics
Communicable diseases