The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era - Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate smallpox, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a disease.