Ebook {Epub PDF} Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox by Jonathan B. Tucker

As Tucker (Toxic Terror) explains, smallpox has devastated humankind throughout most of its history. Highly contagious and with a fatality rate of about 30%, smallpox killed three times more.  · SCOURGE: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. By Jonathan B. Tucker. Atlantic Monthly Press, $ ON October Ali Maow Maalin, a year-old hospital cook in Merca, Somalia, became infected Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Tucker, Jonathan B. Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. Berkeley, Calif.: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. $26 In real estate, the three most important things are “location, location, location.” In nonfiction book writing, the counter-part is “timing, timing, timing.” The publication of Scourge in early SeptemberCited by:

Jonathan B. Tucker is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he specializes in biological and chemical weapons issues. He is the author of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (New York: Grove/Atlantic, ) and War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World. SCOURGE. The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. By Jonathan B. Tucker. pp. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. $ ALTHOUGH it marked an event of far greater importance to human well-being and. Jonathan Tucker's "Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox" is a historical tour de force sparingly littered with scientific errors and skillfully dotted by artistic liberties. No conversation is too private, no location too classified for the near-omniscient gaze of The Tucker.

Grove Press, - History - pages. 3 Reviews. A Washington Post Best Book of , Scourge provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading "expert on biological. Introduction. The title of this recently published book captures its contents like a haiku: scourge, once, future, threat, and smallpox. The 2 book-ended words, scourge and smallpox, precisely. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this deadly disease, the heroic efforts to eradicate it worldwide, and the looming dangers it still poses today.