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Smallpox stands alone as the sole human infectious disease that has been eradicated, yet its past terror remains vivid. The disease produced painful, disfiguring skin lesions and claimed a third of those infected. Jonathan B. Tucker traces the history of smallpox, detailing the global campaigns that brought the pathogen to its end and examining the persistent dangers it still presents today.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Jonathan B. Tucker
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