smallpox

Discusses three of the most serious and damaging diseases and their severe influences on humankind.

Details the stories of the three most serious and damaging diseases in history: the Black Death, smallpox, and AIDS.

Provides a historical overview of the dreaded disease, including its centuries-long effects on society, its causes and symptoms, the development of a vaccine, the eradication of the disease, and its present-day potential as a weapon of war.

Examines the history and epidemiology of small pox, tells the story of how the disease was eradicated in the twentieth century, and considers the question of whether the virus should be destroyed.

Chronicles Dr. Edward Jenner's efforts to discover a vaccine for the smallpox virus and explains how his discovery impacted the world.

Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

A biography of the British physician who discovered the smallpox vaccine.

An account of the series of smallpox epidemics that decimated the native American population in the 1800s.

Traces the history of the smallpox virus, focusing on how the virus may be used as a terrorist weapon in the future and examining the political, biological, environmental, medical, and legal issues surrounding the question of whether the remaining known stocks of the virus should be destroyed.

While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.