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Author McCormick, Joseph B.

Title Level 4 : virus hunters of the CDC / Joseph B. McCormick, Susan Fisher-Hoch ; with Leslie Alan Horvitz.

Publication Info. Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City, Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  614.4 MCC    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.4092 MCCORMICK    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
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 Cité -- 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.
Subject McCormick, Joseph B.
McCormick, Joseph B.
Fisher-Hoch, Susan.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) -- Popular works.
Epidemiologists -- United States -- Biography.
Virologists -- United States -- Biography.
Epidemiology -- Popular works.
Virology -- Popular works.
Hemorrhagic fever -- Epidemiology -- Popular works.
Epidemiology -- Personal Narratives.
Virology -- Personal Narratives.
Hemorrhagic Fever -- Viral -- epidemiology -- Personal Narratives.
Added Author Fisher-Hoch, Susan.
Horvitz, Leslie Alan.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Added Title Level four
Virus hunters of the CDC
ISBN 1570362777 alkaline paper
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