Scourage: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. TuckerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a fascinating, enlightening look at the history of small pox. The story is basically three acts, I: in antiquity, II: combating and defeat of small box, and III: political impediments to destroying remaining stockpiles. III is rather tedious and even disheartening. II stood out the most to me with Soviet Russia's successful internationalist instigation for a global effort to wipe out the disease and the engineering solutions of the US Army's jet injector and the bifurcated needle used during the World Health Organization's smallpox eradication campaign from 1966 to 1977.
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