The Disease Detectives: Deadly Medical Mysteries and the People who Solved Them

ISBN-10
0453004296
ISBN-13
9780453004299
Category
Epidemics
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
1983
Publisher
Dutton Adult
Author
Gerald Astor

Description

The Disease Detectives takes you inside the Centers for Disease Control to meet the scientists to hunt with incredible vigilance for the nature and causes of such hugely publicized killers as Toxic Shock Syndrome and Legionnaire's Disease. But sometimes it is sheer chance that enables them to spot and stop such ancient threats as cholera, bubonic plague, and leprosy when they occasionally reappear today, seemingly from nowhere. These medical detectives tell dramatic tales of tracking down virtually unknown diseases to their far-off origins, and of unraveling such tangled puzzles as the outbreak of spontaneous abortions in a single large department store.

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