Beating back the devil on the front lines with the disease detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
In war against diseases, they are the Special Forces. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than th...
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[2008], c2004.
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