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Marrin, Albert

Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine

120 pp. | Dutton | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-525-46922-2 $$17.99

(2) 4-6 Marrin focuses on the virus's presence in the Western world; the devastation it wrought throughout European history; the incidences in which it wiped out native inhabitants of the Americas; and its impact in armed conflict. Jenner's medical contribution is expanded to the discovery of a larger truth: with a vaccine, humans did not have to accept disease as inevitable. The suggested reading list is geared to an adult audience. Ind.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2002