Virus – Page 4 – VACCINES & BAYONETS: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War

Bill Gates Warns of Smallpox, Flu & Other Epidemics

January 15, 2018July 6, 2018Global Health, Public health, Smallpox4 Comments

“. . . There was a simulation called Dark Winter that didn’t come out very well, i.e., smallpox scored one and humanity scored zero.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Davos, Switzerland, January 2017. Video courtesy of Business Insider, January 18, 2017, 2 min, 35 seconds, link here BILL GATES: A deadly epidemic is a real possibility…

Continue reading ➞ Bill Gates Warns of Smallpox, Flu & Other Epidemics

Smallpox: The Why? in My Memoir

November 29, 2017May 6, 2018On Writing My Memoir, Smallpox6 Comments

Nigerian smallpox vaccination poster in the Hausa language Smallpox: The Why? It’s time to shift gears. It’s time for the Why. Not why I wrote Vaccines & Bayonets (I’ve already blogged about that), but why our family moved to Africa. Why…

Continue reading ➞ Smallpox: The Why? in My Memoir

A different virus. A different pandemic. Countries on opposite sides of an ideological divide cooperate to rid the world of a disease.

With wide-eyed ideals and two young children, Bee eagerly follows her husband to Africa where he helps eradicate smallpox. What Bee encounters deepens her love for Africa, while it erodes her naïveté. She pushes danger and isolation to the back of her mind, keeping cryptic notes and hiding them in the sock drawer. Be among the first to read her eye-opening memoir.

Read more about the author of the newly released historical memoir, Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War.

Please share!

Please share!