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Poliomyelitis: A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies)
Poliomyelitis A World Geography Emergence to Eradication - Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
Author: M. R. Smallman-Raynor, A. D. Cliff
This book is a world geography of poliomyelitis from antiquity to the present day. In the twentieth century, poliomyelitis emerged to become a global crippler and killer. But with the development of preventive vaccines in the 1950s poliomyelitis looks set to be the first disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eliminated by direct human intervention.
ISBN-13: 9780199244744
ISBN-10: 019924474X
Publication Date: 8/24/2006
Pages: 768
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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