Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

摘要

As a reader of epidemiology literature and teaching materials since 1958, when a professor dropped the book Eleven Blue Men on my desk, I have tried to keep up with interesting outbreaks and studies. I bring to the attention of other epidemiologists the book, Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites, by Alexandra M. Levitt, a recent collection of real and different outbreaks. It should be of interest not only to infectious diseases control specialists, but also to laboratory personnel and persons involved in studies that support epidemiologists in the field and in academic institutions.