Smallpox : the fight to eradicate a global scourge /
Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, laboratories, or terrorist groups are in possession of secret stockpiles of the virus that causes the disease, and may be preparing to unleash it on target po...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The rise and fall of smallpox
- The biology of viruses
- Smallpox as a biological weapon
- Environmental law and policy
- The World Health Organization
- The morality of extinction
- The case for extermination
- The case against extermination.
