Smallpox
Subtitle: the death of a disease : the inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer
By: by D.A. Henderson ; foreword by Richard Preston.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781591027225
Subjects: Henderson, Donald Ainslie, -- 1928-; Smallpox -- History -- 20th century; Smallpox -- epidemiology; History, 20th Century; Smallpox -- history; Smallpox -- prevention & control
Description: 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The disease, the virus, and its history; title: The world decides to eradicate smallpox; title: Creating a global program; title: Where to begin : a tale of two countries- Brazil and Indonesia; title: Africa : a formidable and complicated challenge; title: India and Nepal : a natural home of endemic smallpox; title: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh : the last stronghold of variola major; title: Ethiopia and Somalia : the last countries with smallpox; title: Smallpox : post-eradication; title: Smallpox as a biological weapon; title: lessons and legacies of smallpox eradication.