Beating Back the Devil
Subtitle: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Publisher: Free Press
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743251327
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiologists; Medical / Nursing; United States; Medical; Popular works; History; Current Events / General; Epidemic Intelligence Service; Diseases; Centers for Disease Control (U; Epidemiology
First sentence: ON A HUMID, SUNNY MORNING in July 2002, a group of eighty-nine men and women met in a windowless auditorium in an unremarkable pale-brick building set in a leafy suburban neighborhood in northeast Atlanta.