TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reinhardt,Bob H.
TI  - The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era 
T2  - Flows, migrations, and exchanges
SN  - 9781469625102
AV  - RC183 .E536 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Smallpox
KW  - United States
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Control
KW  - World health
KW  - History
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Disease Eradication
KW  - history
KW  - prevention & control
KW  - Global Health
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History, 21st Century
KW  - International Cooperation
KW  - Politics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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