The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease (MacSci) (Record no. 10202)

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Personal name John Rhodes
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Title The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease (MacSci)
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc St. Martin's Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2013
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction eps-library eps-library General Stacks 08/04/2016 999.00   362.1 6702 6702 08/04/2016 1 999.00 08/04/2016 Books 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, continue to threaten human health around the world. Spanning three centuries, The End of Plagues weaves together the discovery of vaccination, the birth and growth of immunology, and the fight to eradicate the world's most feared diseases. From Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination in 1796, to the early nineteenth-century foundling voyages in which chains of orphans, vaccinated one by one, were sent to colonies around the globe, to the development of polio vaccines and the stockpiling of smallpox as a biological weapon in the Cold War, world-renown immunologist John Rhodes charts our fight against these plagues, and shows how vaccinations gave humanity the upper hand. Today, aid groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization have made the eradication of polio a priority, and Rhodes takes us behind the scenes to witness how soon we may be celebrating the eradication of polio.