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 th...
| Main Author: | McKenna, Maryn. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Free Press,
[2008], c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : July 2002, Anniston, Alabama
- Training : July 2002, Atlanta
- Polio : 1955, Atlanta
- West Nile virus : August-October 2002, Atlanta
- Smallpox : 1972, Bangladesh
- Listeriosis : August-November 2002, Philadelphia
- AIDS : 1981, Los Angeles
- Uniformity : November-December 2002, Atlanta
- War : 1994, Zaire
- Malaria : March 2003, Malawi
- Tuberculosis : 1999-2000, Baltimore and New York
- Drug-resistant staphylococcus : March-June 2003, Los Angeles
- Terrorism : 2001, New York City and Washington, D.C.
- SARS : March-July 2003, Hanoi and Bangkok
- Epilogue : July-September 2003.