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Author | : Stephanie True Peters |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761416371 |
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Describes the history of smallpox in the Americas, covering the arrival of the Spanish as carriers, its spread throughout the New World, the development of the smallpox vaccine, the elimination of the disease, and its potential use as a terrorist weapon.
Author | : Bob H. Reinhardt |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1469624109 |
Download The End of a Global Pox Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a human disease. Unlike other works that have chronicled the fight against smallpox by offering a "biography" of the disease or employing a triumphalist narrative of a public health victory, The End of a Global Pox examines the eradication program as a complex exercise of American power. Reinhardt draws on methods from environmental, medical, and political history to interpret the global eradication effort as an extension of U.S. technological, medical, and political power. This book demonstrates the far-reaching manifestations of American liberalism and Cold War ideology and sheds new light on the history of global public health and development.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809078219 |
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply "variola" affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. Illustrations.
Author | : James Carrick Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1815 |
Genre | : Smallpox |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of the Small Pox Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Moore follows the history of the disease from its first recorded appearance in Asia and Africa to Arabia and finally to Europe and America. he then provides a history of treatment, including three chapters on the discovery and reception of inoculation. Moore was an early advocate of vaccination, and this book is dedicated to Edward Jenner. In 1810 Moore was appointed director of the National Vaccine Establishment.
Author | : Michael Bennett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521765676 |
Download The War Against Smallpox Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.
Author | : R. G. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0870044974 |
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The smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 forever changed the tribes of the Northern Plains.a Before it ran out of human fuel, the disease claimed 20,000 souls.a R.G. Robertson tells the story of this deadly virus with modern implications. "
Author | : Gonzalo Díaz de Yraola |
Publisher | : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna |
ISBN | : 9788400081720 |
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Author | : Richard Preston |
Publisher | : Fawcett |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-08-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0345466632 |
Download The Demon in the Freezer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense. Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world’s most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines. Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government’ s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill. Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.
Author | : G. Williams |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2010-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230293190 |
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The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign.
Author | : Catherine M. Cameron |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816532206 |
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There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples. But though these diseases were devastating, their impact has been widely exaggerated. Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of identity, and other factors undermined Native populations. These factors worked in a deadly cabal with germs to cause epidemics, exacerbate mortality, and curtail population recovery. Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World was caused primarily by diseases brought by European colonists that infected Native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens. In Beyond Germs, contributors expertly argue that blaming germs lets Europeans off the hook for the enormous number of Native American deaths that occurred after 1492. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians come together in this cutting-edge volume to report a wide variety of other factors in the decline in the indigenous population, including genocide, forced labor, and population dislocation. These factors led to what the editors describe in their introduction as “systemic structural violence” on the Native populations of North America. While we may never know the full extent of Native depopulation during the colonial period because the evidence available for indigenous communities is notoriously slim and problematic, what is certain is that a generation of scholars has significantly overemphasized disease as the cause of depopulation and has downplayed the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.