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Synopsis
Sublimely equipped to survive, to propagate, to conquer, the virus is neither really alive nor really dead. It's dimensions are measured in molecules. It attacks by dismantling it's human targets cell by cell. An ancient adversary, resident on this earth long before our evolutionary ancestors arrived, the virus is without conscience or compassion, without mind. It enjoys the advantages of countless numbers and infinite time. It is a being almost too simple to understand and too basic to outwit. We are locked in a war with the virus. Each battle kills some of us. The battles have many names: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS ....
Joseph McCormick and Susan Fischer-Hoch have met them all; and they have fought them all. Level 4 Virus Hunters of the CDC is their story. It is an intense, personal account of more than a quarter of a century on the front lines - in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that McCormick was instrumental in creating at the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet, where the local climate, terrain and politics can kill as easily as any disease. Told in intimate detail by two of the world's best known virologists this book brings home 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."
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- PublisherTurner Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1570363978
- ISBN 13 9781570363979
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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