Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth Anne Fenn

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

Elizabeth Anne Fenn

370 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it....

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