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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. The book demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as the text narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a disease. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. Description based on opening page (viewed Nov 13, 2019). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469625102 1469625105 9781469624105 1469624109 |