Inside the outbreaks
Subtitle: the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service
By: Mark Pendergrast.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780151011209
Subjects: Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). -- Epidemic Intelligence Service -- Popular works; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). -- Epidemic Intelligence Service; Epidemiology -- Popular works; Epidemiologists -- United States -- Popular works; Communicable Disease Control -- history -- United States; Epidemiology -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; United States Government Agencies -- United States
Genres: Popular works
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cold war, hot pathogens; title: Throwing them overboard; title: Killer vaccine, goat-hair anthrax, rabid bats, and staph attacks; title: Pandemic flu, purple enteritis on mars, polio problems; title: New discoveries and mysteries in the early sixties; title: The diaspora; title: Fighting pox, pandemics, and special pathogens; title: Eradication escalation; title: Not just infections any more; title: Surveillance and containment; title: Target zero; title: The year of living dangerously; title: Superwomen (and men) of the late seventies; title: Budget wars and new plagues; title: Entering the computer age; title: Unexpected connections; title: Emerging infections; title: Rough sledding; title: Approaching a new millennium; title: Full circle; title: Into the 21st century; title: L'expérience fait la difference.