2 stories tagged ‘Smallpox’

Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / February 2, 2012

Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of many battles against devastating diseases, leading pivotal breakthroughs against scourges from 1800 to the present.

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Categories: HarvardScience, Health & Medicine

Chronicler of history’s sweep

By Krysten A. Keches ’10, Harvard Staff Writer / November 12, 2009

Erez Manela’s study of 20th century international history ranges from Woodrow Wilson’s advocacy of self-determination in the 1910s to ending smallpox in the 1970s.

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Categories: Campus & Community, Faculty