3RD Indie Reading Book

I think Caroline B. Cooney is trying to say that people will slack off and people will start getting pressure and nervous. (i.e. Mitty gets alot of pressure because of his report for advance biology class with 10 pages and he really wants to stay in that class because Oliva is in the same class.) Mitty found something for his report, Variola Major(Smallpox virus). He decided to research on that because it was unknown and no one has a cure for it. He finds out that smallpox attack cells and multiply throughout the body. Mr. Lynch, Mitty's teacher, told Mitty he could do interviews to speed up his report. Mitty kept reading about smallpox. He found out that some people had smallpox at a young age, but some recovered, some died. Smallpox killed over one thousand people and even more after years passed by when it started infecting people. An American guy named Donald Henderson was put in charge of World Health Organization program to eradicate smallpox. He made things called ring immunization and it was when someone has smallpox and a large group of people. They would go to that area and give them vaccinations. They gave over fifty thousand vaccinations. Then by October 1977, smallpox, the worst scourge known to earth, is gone forever.