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Series
CMH pub volume 70-133-1
Publisher
Center of Military History, United State Army
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A killer virus ... an all-powerful Empress ... an encounter cloaked in secrecy. Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed untold millions. Back in the eighteenth century, as epidemics swept Europe, the first rumours emerged of an effective treatment: a mysterious method called inoculation. But a key problem remained: convincing people to accept the preventative remedy, the forerunner of vaccination. Arguments...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The author argues that a demand for public solutions during smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century, especially broad access to inoculation, influenced revolutionary politics and changed the way that Americans understood their health and governmental responsibilities to protect it"--
126) Saving the world
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the creation of some of the world's most important vaccines. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist...
131) Panic in the streets
Series
Fox film noir volume 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and inoculate the killers.