The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History

by Donald R. Hopkins

Book Overview

Once known as the "great fire" or "spotted death," smallpox has been rivaled only by plague as a source of supreme terror. Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, recent terrorist attacks in the United States have raised the possibility that someone might craft a deadly biological weapon from stocks of the virus that remain in known or perhaps unknown laboratories.

In The Greatest Killer, Donald R. Hopkins provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226351688
• ISBN13: 9780226351681
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"