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245 10 a| Global disease eradication :b| the race for the last child /c| Cynthia A. Needham and Richard Canning.;

300 a| vii, 196 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.;

505 0 a| Two children -- Swamps, farms, and bad air -- Escalating pressure -- Learning from the past -- Biology plays its hand -- Social issues loom large -- Fatal inflexibility -- The price of failure -- Forward to the present -- Magic bullets -- Malaria, man, and mosquito -- Fading scars -- From golden needles to vaccine -- Moving toward control -- Thinking about eradication -- Commitment, evolution, success -- Smallpox Zero -- The smallpox dividend -- An incomplete life -- Biologic realities -- The invisible disease -- The clearing picture -- President Roosevelt's other war -- The needs of the world -- Brazil's attack -- Coming to America -- Going global -- Measures of success, or failure -- The end game -- Another virus, another vaccine -- Biologic feasibility -- Financial resources -- Political will -- Social benefit -- The next campaign -- Christopher Plowe and the Abdoulaye Djimde: malaria warriors -- Donald Ainslie Henderson: politics and public health -- William Foege: legacy of a smallpox campaign -- Sharon Bloom: when politics are local -- Philip Spradling, from primary care to the mountains of Nepal -- Kathy Kohler, fulfilling a dream -- Alice Pope: a passion for people -- Duane Kilgus: from desk to desert -- Virginia Swezy: a champion in the final leg of the race -- Steve Stewart: roads and rivers -- Fabio Leviano: opening Pandora's box -- Donald Hopkins: the blowing of a certain trumpet -- Walter Dowdle: the leader people barely know exists --Steve Cochi: turning dreams into reality -- The World Health Organization.;

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Global disease eradication : the race for the last child / Cynthia A. Needham and Richard Canning.

Author/creator	Needham, Cynthia, 1946-
Other author	Canning, Richard, 1960-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2003.
Description	vii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Epidemics--Prevention. Communicable diseases--Prevention. Communicable Disease Control. Malaria--Prevention and control. Poliomyelitis--Prevention and control. Smallpox--Prevention and control.

Contents	Two children -- Swamps, farms, and bad air -- Escalating pressure -- Learning from the past -- Biology plays its hand -- Social issues loom large -- Fatal inflexibility -- The price of failure -- Forward to the present -- Magic bullets -- Malaria, man, and mosquito -- Fading scars -- From golden needles to vaccine -- Moving toward control -- Thinking about eradication -- Commitment, evolution, success -- Smallpox Zero -- The smallpox dividend -- An incomplete life -- Biologic realities -- The invisible disease -- The clearing picture -- President Roosevelt's other war -- The needs of the world -- Brazil's attack -- Coming to America -- Going global -- Measures of success, or failure -- The end game -- Another virus, another vaccine -- Biologic feasibility -- Financial resources -- Political will -- Social benefit -- The next campaign -- Christopher Plowe and the Abdoulaye Djimde: malaria warriors -- Donald Ainslie Henderson: politics and public health -- William Foege: legacy of a smallpox campaign -- Sharon Bloom: when politics are local -- Philip Spradling, from primary care to the mountains of Nepal -- Kathy Kohler, fulfilling a dream -- Alice Pope: a passion for people -- Duane Kilgus: from desk to desert -- Virginia Swezy: a champion in the final leg of the race -- Steve Stewart: roads and rivers -- Fabio Leviano: opening Pandora's box -- Donald Hopkins: the blowing of a certain trumpet -- Walter Dowdle: the leader people barely know exists --Steve Cochi: turning dreams into reality -- The World Health Organization.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.
LCCN	2003004484
ISBN	1555812252
ISBN	9781555812256

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