Level 4 : Virus Hunters of the CDC. [Level Four] [The Ebola Trail; HIV Reveals its Past; The Asian Bombshell; The Infected Animal Handlers; The Stricken Surgeons; etc]

1st ed., 1st printing ; 379 pp. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ; LCCN: 96-17740 ; ISBN: 1570362777 ; OCLC: 34584021 ; grey and black cloth with silver lettering, in white, black and red dust jacket ; slight wear, Contents: Preface -- Prologue -- Chap. 1. Zaire, 1983/1965 -- Chap. 2. Of epidemiology and potato salad -- Chap. 3. Suffer the children -- Chap. 4. The death of a nurse from Yambuku -- Chap. 5. The battle commences -- Chap. 6. The Ebola trail -- Chap. 7. The deserted hospital -- Chap. 8. My place among the dead -- Chap. 9. Learning Lassa -- Chap. 10. Of souls and centrifuges -- Chap. 11. Magic bullets -- Chap. 12. Kadiatu -- Chap. 13. Nzara revisited -- Chap. 14. Sue's story -- Chap. 15. Virology, plumbing and Ebola -- Chap. 16. Level 4 : British style -- Chap. 17. The outbreak that escaped -- Chap. 18. A free woman from La Cite? -- Chap. 19. Project SIDA begins -- Chap. 20. HIV reveals its past -- Chap. 21. HIV goes downriver -- Chap. 22. The Lassa project revisited -- Chap. 23. Jenny Sanders in Segbwema -- Chap. 24. Sunset over Segbwema -- Chap. 25. Of mice and peanut shells -- Chap. 26. Lassa moves to Chicago -- Chap. 27. Juju -- Chap. 28. Ebola in Virginia? -- Chap. 29. The Asian bombshell -- Chap. 30. The infected animal handlers -- Chap. 31. The monkey expedition -- Chap. 32. Desert fevers -- Chap. 33. Cathedrals -- Chap. 34. The stricken surgeons -- Chap. 35. Between two worlds -- Appendix 1. A viral pedigree -- Appendix 2. The hot lab -- Acknowledgements -- Index. ; Personal account of the author's work in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that he created at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta battling such viruses as Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hermorrhagic Fever, and AIDS and searching for weapons with which to combat them. ; VG/VG.…