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Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service / Mark Pendergrast.

by Pendergrast, Mark.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Epidemic Intelligence Service -- Popular works.

Epidemiology -- Popular works.

Epidemiologists -- United States -- Popular works.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009029871-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009029871-d.html

9780151011209 :

xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

A history of the elite medical corps at the forefront of the world's most dangerous epidemics cites their victories over such diseases as polio, cholera, and smallpox.

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