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

Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. Its dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling its human targets cell by cell.
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter-century on the front lines - in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain, and politics can kill just as surely as any disease.
Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best-known virologists - colleagues, collaborators, husband and wife - Level 4 is a journey across the world and into many strange new worlds: from the seductive beauty of equatorial Africa - a limitless reservoir of infection - to the confines of the all-but-invisible field of the electron microscope. While other books have offered hot zones, sick monkeys, and grim statistics, Level 4 brings home from the world of the virus the human stories of those who lived, and those who died.

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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."

Edition details

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