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Product Description: Once known as the "great fire" or "spotted death," smallpox has been rivaled only by plague as a source of supreme terror. Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, recent terrorist attacks in the United States have raised the possibility that someone might craft a deadly biological weapon from stocks of the virus that remain in known or perhaps unknown laboratories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of the disease of smallpox from its possible origins in prehistoric times to its eradication in 1977