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The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History by Donald R. Hopkins (Paperback, 2002)
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In "The Greatest Killer" Donald R. Hopkins provides a fascinating account of smallpox and its role in human history. He describes how smallpox often wiped out whole villages and decimated the populations of entire regions, and how the disease disrupted agriculture and trade.Smallpox changed the course of history as it removed or temporarily incapacitated heads of state, halted or exacerbated wars, and devastated populations that had never been exposed to the disease.