TY  - JOUR
T1  - House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox
AU  - Saravolatz LD
Y1  - 2012/03/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.275
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1089
EP  - 1090
VL  - 307
IS  - 10
N2  - 
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox, by William H. Foege, provides a firsthand account of the chronology of the efforts to successfully eradicate smallpox in the world. Although a leader of the team that eradicated smallpox, Foege points out that this was an effort of thousands who worked on the global smallpox effort in the 1960s and 1970s. The book thus provides a perspective on the control of smallpox different from that provided by D. A. Henderson, who headed the World Health Organization's eradication efforts. However, there are obvious similarities in the control measures. The eradication of smallpox is truly one of the great success stories of infectious diseases medicine and public health and has been heralded as a triumph of modern medicine.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.275
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.275
ER  -