Dealing with the global covid19 pandemic, it seems like kind of a an opportune moment to look back at the history of other infectious diseases and i wanted to talk about smallpox because there are many parallels as you ll notice over the course of this talk between smallpox and the coronavirus and how societies dealt with it. Also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. So in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. I hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. So today s talk. We re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. Um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. There we go. There we go. All right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. Pandemic of covid19 and smallpox now the sto
Also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. So in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experienced during coronavirus. I hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. So today s talk. We re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. Um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. There we go. There we go. All right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. Pandemic of covid19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. It is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. So on average about one third of people who were infected with smallpox died.
Success story because it s the it has been eradicated. So in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. I hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. So today s talk. We re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. Um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. There we go. There we go. All right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. Pandemic of covid19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. It is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. So on average about one third of people who were infected with smallpox died. Those are mortality rates are sp
the coronavirus and how societies dealt with it. also a smallpox is ultimately a success story because it s the it has been eradicated. so in these days when we re all struggling to stay vigilant to deal with the hardships struggles and deaths that the globe is experience during coronavirus. i hope that this history of smallpox gives us a little hope about what the future might hold. so today s talk. we re going to explore the history of smallpox and how humans beat it. um, so let s go ahead and move to our first slide slides are not advancing. there we go. there we go. all right, as i say throughout this talk you ll probably notice some parallels between our current. pandemic of covid-19 and smallpox now the story of smallpox, which is called the scourge of the species. it is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that had been plaguing humankind for millennia it is very deadly with mortality rates usually ranging somewhere between 20 and 60 percent. so on average abou
you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. while congress is on august break, c-span prime time programming will feature a wide range of political views and topics. includek s programs latino elected officials, the conservative summit, and netroots nation conference. up, arthur christian mcburney talks about his book am kidnapping the enemy. it chronicles the capture of two high ranking officers during the revolutionary war. british dragoons kidnapped major general charles lee, then second-in-command of the continental army. they were confident the war would soon be over. but the americans decided to respond with a special operation of their own. this event from the national archives is a little under one hour. the special is operations to capture general charles lee and richard prescott by