Level 4: Virus Hunters of the Cdc - Hardcover

McCormick, Joseph; Fisher-Hoch, Susan; Horvitz, Leslie Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570362777 ISBN 13: 9781570362774

Publisher: Turner Pub, 1996

Synopsis

A pioneering epidemiologist describes his work for the Centers for Disease Control, relates his work on its Biosafety Level 4 containment facility, and offers a riveting firsthand look at some of the plagues and biological catastrophes confronting the world today. Tour.

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Review:

"[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa.... [He] worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out." --Richard Preston, bestselling author of "The Hot Zone "
" . . . their tales of plague fighting in isolated African villages often boggle the imagination." --"Kirkus Reviews"

[McCormick has] been face-to-face with Ebola in Africa . [He] worked for days inside a mud hut that was smeared with Ebola blood, on his knees among people who were crashing and bleeding out. Richard Preston, bestselling author of The Hot Zone
. . . their tales of plague fighting in isolated African villages often boggle the imagination. Kirkus Reviews"

About the Author:

JOSEPH B. MCCORMICK, MD, one of the world s foremost authorities on Ebola and Lassa fever, is also renowned as the first HIV investigator in Africa and the researcher who isolated the oldest HIV strain.
Before SUSAN FISHER-HOCH, MD joined the CDC, she did pioneering work on Lassa fever, Legionnaires disease, and Ebola."

About this edition

• Publisher: Turner Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1570362777
• ISBN 13: 9781570362774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 379