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The end of a global pox : America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era / Bob H. Reinhardt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469625102
  • 9781469624105
Other title:
  • America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC183 .E536 2015
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Contents:
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.
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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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