Level 4 Hunters of the Cdc - Softcover

Joseph B. McCormick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760712115 ISBN 13: 9780760712115

Publisher: Marboro Books, 1999

Synopsis

1999, 397-page trade paperback edition, Barnes & Noble. Updated edition, with new material by author Joseph B. McCormick. The Center for Disease Control classifies the deadliest of viruses as level 4.

About this title

Review:

The hemorrhagic viral diseases, such as Ebola, are among the most elusive and gruesome diseases known to man. Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, a husband-and-wife team formerly of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, have spent their lives tracking these pathogens, traversing the globe in heroic efforts to confine them and prevent epidemic. In Level 4, McCormick and Fisher-Hoch recount their most gripping and rewarding experiences, and give insight into the stubborn bravery and driving curiosity that compels them to continually put their own lives at risk for the welfare of humanity.

About the Author:

JOSEPH B. MCCORMICK, MD, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Ebola and Lassa fever, is also renowned as the first HIV investigator in Africa and the researcher who isolated the oldest HIV strain.
 
Before SUSAN FISHER-HOCH, MD joined the CDC, she did pioneering work on Lassa fever, Legionnaires’ disease, and Ebola.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marboro Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0760712115
• ISBN 13: 9780760712115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380