The rinderpest campaigns : a virus, its vaccines, and global development in the twentieth century /

Amanda Kay McVety has written the first history of the international effort to eradicate rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - which began in the 1940s and ended in 2011. Rinderpest is the only other disease besides smallpox to have been eradicated, but very few people in the United States kno...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McVety, Amanda Kay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Global and international history.
Temas:
Rinderpest > History.
Rinderpest > Prevention.
Rinderpest > history
Rinderpest > prevention & control
Vaccination > veterinary
Disease Eradication > history
International Cooperation > history
History, 20th Century
Peste bovine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
Rinderpest.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rinderpest and the origins of international cooperation for disease control
  • GIR-1 : rinderpest in World War II
  • "Freedom from want": UNRRA's rinderpest campaigns
  • The machinery of development : FAO's rinderpest campaigns
  • Back to Grosse Ile : biological warfare in the postwar world
  • "Freedom from rinderpest."

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