Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Biology - Microbiology, Microbiology
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Overview
The virus detectives of the CDC risk their lives daily at the bottom of nature to confront the worlds deadliest pathogens. Regis takes us on a fascinating odyssey, chronicling the CDCs extraordinary 50-year history against the backdrop of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire — & exploding the media-driven myth of the coming plague. Starting from a small government agency founded for the purpose of eradicating malaria in the 1940s, the CDC has grown into a disease-fighting behemoth whose sphere of action is the entire planet. Explores the CDCs battles against Lassa fever & Legionnaires disease.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1998
Publisher
Pocket
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780671023256