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The end of Plagues: The global battle Against Infectious Disease
"At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox claimed the lives of two million people per year. By 1979, the disease had been eradicated and victory was declared across the globe. Yet the story of smallpox remains the exception, as today a host of deadly contagions, from polio to AIDS, con...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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Kazalo:
- The power of the invisible
- Circassian beauties and pioneering women
- The making of Jenner
- Why not try the experiment?
- The fourth achievement
- The foundling voyages
- The teeming humanity of nations
- A great and loud commotion
- Completing the picture
- Germ theory and the birth of immunology
- Victorious weapons against illness and death
- First light on the mystery of infantile paralysis
- Yearning to breathe free
- A great step forward
- Great themes and dirty little secrets
- The war on influenza
- Forged in the crucible of war
- Smallpox in a land of ancient wisdom
- The final defeat of smallpox
- Invisible weapons of war
- Benefits, risks, and fears
- Inspiration in the global village
- A team of many colors
- The milkmaid and the cuckoo.