Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service

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Inside the outbreaks : the elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service

Mark Pendergrast

Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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Contents of Works

  • 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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