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Publisher Unknown (1969)
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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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LibraryThing member sharonk21
My absolute favorite glorification of epidemiologists. (Guess what I did for a living). Also highly readable and worthwhile.
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Disease Detectives (Plume) by Gerald Astor (Paperback)
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