Level 4 : Virus Hunters of the CDC. [Level Four] [The Ebola Trail; HIV Reveals its Past; The Asian Bombshell; The Infected Animal Handlers; The Stricken Surgeons; etc]

McCormick, Joseph B. ; Fisher-Hoch, Susan. ; Horvitz, Leslie Alan. [cover photo, J. Stoll; cover design, Michael J. Walsh; editor, Alan ALxelrod, designer, Karen Smith; eds., Patrice Silverstein, Jim Davis, Alex Novak, Reg Lansberry, Marian G. Lord]

ISBN 10: 1570362777 / ISBN 13: 9781570362774

Published by Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City, Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, 1996., 1996

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1st ed., 1st printing ; 379 pp. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ; LCCN: 96-17740 ; ISBN: 1570362777 ; OCLC: 34584021 ; grey and black cloth with silver lettering, in white, black and red dust jacket ; slight wear, Contents: Preface -- Prologue -- Chap. 1. Zaire, 1983/1965 -- Chap. 2. Of epidemiology and potato salad -- Chap. 3. Suffer the children -- Chap. 4. The death of a nurse from Yambuku -- Chap. 5. The battle commences -- Chap. 6. The Ebola trail -- Chap. 7. The deserted hospital -- Chap. 8. My place among the dead -- Chap. 9. Learning Lassa -- Chap. 10. Of souls and centrifuges -- Chap. 11. Magic bullets -- Chap. 12. Kadiatu -- Chap. 13. Nzara revisited -- Chap. 14. Sue's story -- Chap. 15. Virology, plumbing and Ebola -- Chap. 16. Level 4 : British style -- Chap. 17. The outbreak that escaped -- Chap. 18. A free woman from La Cite? -- Chap. 19. Project SIDA begins -- Chap. 20. HIV reveals its past -- Chap. 21. HIV goes downriver -- Chap. 22. The Lassa project revisited -- Chap. 23. Jenny Sanders in Segbwema -- Chap. 24. Sunset over Segbwema -- Chap. 25. Of mice and peanut shells -- Chap. 26. Lassa moves to Chicago -- Chap. 27. Juju -- Chap. 28. Ebola in Virginia? -- Chap. 29. The Asian bombshell -- Chap. 30. The infected animal handlers -- Chap. 31. The monkey expedition -- Chap. 32. Desert fevers -- Chap. 33. Cathedrals -- Chap. 34. The stricken surgeons -- Chap. 35. Between two worlds -- Appendix 1. A viral pedigree -- Appendix 2. The hot lab -- Acknowledgements -- Index. ; Personal account of the author's work in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that he created at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta battling such viruses as Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hermorrhagic Fever, and AIDS and searching for weapons with which to combat them. ; VG/VG. Seller Inventory # 2711

Bibliographic Details

Title: Level 4 : Virus Hunters of the CDC. [Level ...

Publisher: Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City, Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, 1996.

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: Book

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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.

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"