Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox

ISBN-13: 9780802139399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str.

Jonathan B. Tucker

Opis

A history of one of the world's deadliest diseases traces the influence of the smallpox plague on the course of human civilization, describes Jenner's creation of a vaccine against it and the World Health Organization's global efforts to eradicate it, and examines the dangers it still poses today as