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The end of a global pox : America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era /
By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate the disease, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded....
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Becoming a suitable candidate for global eradication
- A global great society and the U.S. commitment to eradication
- The CDC and smallpox eradication in West and Central Africa
- Mutual understanding and the final phase of eradication
- A suitable candidate for global terror
- Epilogue : celebrating a complicated legacy.