Global Disease Eradication

Table of Contents


Eradication: a Prologue

Malaria and the Magic Bullet

Outbreak
Two Children
Swamps, Farms, and Bad Air
Escalating Pressure
Learning from the Past: Hard Lessons, Hard Work
Biology Plays Its Hand
Social Issues Loom Large
Fatal Inflexibility: One Plan to Fit All
The Price of Failure
Forward to the Present
Magic Bullets: Malaria, Man, and Mosquito: the Biologic Perspective
Smallpox: the Right Disease, the Right Time

Fading Scars
From Golden Needles to Vaccine
Moving toward Control
Thinking About Eradication
Commitment, Evolution, Success
Smallpox Zero
The Smallpox Dividend: An Incomplete Life: the Biologi Perspective
Polio: the Rise and Fall of a Disease

The Countdown
Biologic Realities
The Invisible Disease
The Clearing Picture
President Roosevelt's Other War
The Needs of the World
Brazil's Attack
Coming to America
Going Global
Measures of Success--or Failure
The End Game: Another Virus, Another Vaccine: the Biologic Perspective
The Future for Global Disease Eradication

Biologic Feasibility
Financial Resources
Political Will
Social Benefit
The Next Campaign
Epilogue: Voices from the Eradication Campaigns

Christopher Plowe and Abdoulaye Djimde: Malaria Warriors
Donald Ainslie Henderson: Politics and Public Health
William Foege: Legacy of the Smallpox Campaign
Sharon Bloom: When Politics Are Local
Phillip Spradling: from Primary Care to the Mountains of Nepal
Kathy Kohler: Fulfilling a Dream
Alice Pope: a Passion for People
Duane Kilgus: from Desk to Desert
Virginia Swezy: a Champion in the Final Leg of the Race
Steve Stewart: Roads and Rivers
Fabio Leviano: Opening Pandora's Box
Donald Hopkins: the Blowing of a Certain Trumpet
Walter Dowdle: the Leader People Barely Know Exists
Steve Cochi: Turning Dreams into Reality
The World Health Organization