Poliomyelitis: A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication

by A.D. Cliff and M.R. Smallman-Raynor

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019924474X
• ISBN13: 9780199244744
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 3.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"