The end of plagues : the global battle against infectious disease /
"At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox claimed the lives of two million people per year. By 1979, the disease had been eradicated and victory was declared across the globe. Yet the story of smallpox remains the exception, as today a host of deadly contagions, from polio to AIDS, contin...
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New York City :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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