Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service / Mark Pendergrast.
Pendergrast, Mark.
2010
RA653 .P46 2010 (Mapit)
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Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service / Mark Pendergrast.
Author
Pendergrast, Mark.
ISBN
9780151011209
0151011206
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 418 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
RA653 .P46 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.4
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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