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In this title the author has confronted, studied, probed, and fought many viruses - Ebola, Lassa fever, HIV/AIDS, Anthrax, Leprosy, and Meningitis - case by case and on an epidemic scale. This is his story of a quarter century on the front lines of the CDC's struggle to hold the tissue-thin line separating humankind from what might well be the true inheritors of the earth: viruses. Level 4 combines fascinating accounts of cutting-edge medical research with white-knuckle stories of survival in some of the remotest places on earth, where the climate, the terrain, and the politics can kill just as surely as any disease.

"It is because of the stubborn bravery and driven curiosity of people like these that we know the full story of emerging viruses and are in a position to respond to the next outbreak when it comes along--as it most certainly will."

Robin Marantz Henig, New York Times Book Review, 08/18/1996

"McCormick's story of how he and his colleagues successfully ran a clinical trial of the drug ribavirin for Lassa fever is nothing short of heroic."

David Brown, Washington Post Book World, 09/01/1996

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the Cdc: Search Results