Books with author Irmengard Eberle

Edward Jenner has a place among the immortals in preventive medicine. His invention of vaccination against smallpox was a medical breakthrough. Before him, smallpox was a killer disease, the majority of its victims infants and young children. And, except for the skin lesions, there is nothing small about smallpox. In the twentieth century alone, it killed more than 300 million—three times the number of deaths from all the century's wars and battles combined. While this book was written for young adults and has a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of 7.3., readers of all ages will find the story of Jenner’s work against smallpox inspiring. For years, he battled skeptics who did not think that vaccinations with material from cows could protect humans from smallpox. Read about how he persuaded the world to use new science to save lives. Could his methods of public health education be useful today in the battle against AIDS?