Inside the Outbreaks : : the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Cold war, hot pathogens -- Throwing them overboard -- Killer vaccine, goat-hair anthrax, rabid bats, and staph attacks -- Pandemic flu, purple enteritis on mars, polio problems -- New discoveries and mysteries in the early sixties -- The diaspora -- Fighting pox, pandemics, and special pathogens -- Eradication escalation -- Not just infections any more -- Surveillance and containment -- Target zero -- The year of living dangerously -- Superwomen (and men) of the late seventies -- Budget wars and new plagues -- Entering the computer age -- Unexpected connections -- Emerging infections -- Rough sledding -- Approaching a new millennium -- Full circle -- Into the twenty-first century -- L'expérience fait la difference.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0151011206
9780151011209
SUBJECTS
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). -- Epidemic Intelligence Service.
Epidemiologists.
Epidemiology.