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Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

text Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

Summary

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.

Contents
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 ... Read more
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Description
xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 614.4 PEN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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