Smallpox: Now & Then

Hosted byBarbara Simpson

Guests:
Jennifer Lee Carrell

Smallpox: Now & Then

About the show

Jennifer Lee Carrell, the author of The Speckled Monster, was Barbara's guest on the Sunday night show. She discussed how the deadly smallpox epidemic was battled throughout history and its relation to the current outbreaks of SARS and monkeypox.

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