Childhood's Deadly Scourge
Subtitle: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801870972
Subjects: History of medicine; Public health & preventive medicine; Social history; Medical / Nursing; Medical; New York; History; Medical / History; New York City
First sentence: Early in 1993 reports began to appear in the U.S. press of a diphtheria outbreak in Russia and other regions of the former Soviet Union.