A tour of the international hot spots where disease is being studied and combated on a widespread scale profiles areas where dangerous outbreaks are occurring as well as sites where powerful new treatments are being developed, in a volume that cites the importance of sharing global resources to counter future health threats. 35,000 first printing.

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Philip J. Hilts has been a prizewinning health and science reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post. In more than twenty years' time he placed more than three hundred stories on the front pages of those papers. His book Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation won the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

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