| Author |
Pendergrast, Mark.
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| Publication |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
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| Copyright date |
©2010 |
| Description |
xiv, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Call # |
614.4 P |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 21st century -- L'expérience fait la difference. |
| Subject |
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Epidemic Intelligence Service.
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Epidemiology.
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Epidemiologists -- United States.
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Epidemiology -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0151011206 : |
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9780151011209 : |
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