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Manela’s research focuses on international history and the United States in the world, including the impact of Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric at the end of World War I and, more recently, the worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox...
...Smallpox eradication is a way to see how that works not simply on the drawing board or in theory but actually on the ground,” said Manela...
...Sept. 4 news article "Manela Appointed History Professor" gave the wrong disease in stating that Erez Manela is studying the global campaign that eradicated malaria. In fact, he is studying the eradication of smallpox. Malaria has not been eradicated...
...most vexing decision facing health officials is when to institute mass vaccination programs. Vaccines carry risks of complications, leading to agonizing ethical dilemmas. In 1976, Ford offered indemnity to the vaccine manufacturers. But according to reports, President George W. Bush decided in 2002 not to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program - despite Vice President Dick Cheney's belief that doing so was a prudent counterterrorism step - because it could have resulted in dozens of deaths (the smallpox vaccine kills between 1 and 2 people per million people inoculated...
...think that's an investment worth making. Clearly it's not off the scale compared to other investments we routinely make for national security and defending the health and well-being of our nation." -On the spending needed to prepare the country for an attack using weaponized smallpox or other bio-chemical hazards. (CNN, November...