Mccormick Joseph B Md (2 results)

Condition: FINE. First printing. "An intense personal account of more than a quarter-century on the front lines - in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that the author createdat the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet. . . in the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forests of Brazil, the nomadic settlements of Northern Pakistan." Photographs, maps, index. 379 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. As new condition red boards, black spine, and red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Standard Definition of "Level 4" from CDC/NIH, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories; Preface; Prologue; Appendix One: A Viral Pedigree; Appendix Two: The Hot Lab; Acknowledgments and Index. "All the characters are real, and all the incidents we describe truly happened. The husband and wife team of Dr. Joseph B. McCormick and Dr. Susan Fisher-Hoch have spent decades fighting the viruses that cause some of the deadliest diseases known to mankind, including Ebola, Lassa fever, and AIDS. Some of these viruses have been classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as "Level 4" organisms, requiring the highest levels of secure containment in laboratory conditions, flourishing in regions where they remain unchecked, and resulting in a great loss of life. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC is the personal record of McCormick and Fisher-Hoch, who have worked in the ar reaches of the world - equatorial Africa, the ghettos and rainforests of Brazil, settlements in northern Pakistan - to defeat killer viruses and save human lives. In these dramatic stories, the authors chronicle their many years as virus hunters, including their experiences doggedly hunting Ebola cases through remote corners of the Democratic Reublic of the Congo and Sudan, as well as facing the outbreak of Ebola among monkeys in a lab in Reston, Virginia - the same case that formed the subject of Richard Preston's best-selling The Hot Zone. The doctors also track the frightening early spread of AIDS, and the critical search for a vaccine for the highly virulent Lassa fever. Level 4 isn't just a book about scientists battling micro-organisms. McCormick and Fisher-Hoch also argue forcefully, using vivid firsthand details from the front lines of medical investigations, that social problems endemic to many parts of the world - overpopulation, poverty, urbanization - fuel the wildfire-like spread of these dangerous diseases. "We must get at the root causes," they write, "if we are ever to do more than delay the crisis.Remember that in the world of viruses, we are the invaders." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.