Global disease eradication: the race for the last child

Two children

Swamps, farms, and bad air

Escalating pressure

Learning from the past

Biology plays its hand

Social issues loom large

Fatal inflexibility

The price of failure

Forward to the present

Magic bullets

Malaria, man, and mosquito

Fading scars

From golden needles to vaccine

Moving toward control

Thinking about eradication

Commitment, evolution, success

Smallpox Zero

The smallpox dividend

An incomplete life

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

Biologic feasibility

Financial resources

Political will

Social benefit

The next campaign

Christopher Plowe and the Abdoulaye Djimde: malaria warriors

Donald Ainslie Henderson: politics and public health

William Foege: legacy of a smallpox campaign

Sharon Bloom: when politics are local

Philip 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.