Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer

With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs



For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the

relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding book is Dr. Henderson's personal story of how he led the World Health Organization's c...