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The disease detectives : deadly medical mysteries and the people who solved them
- Title
- The disease detectives : deadly medical mysteries and the people who solved them / by Gerald Astor.
- Author
- Astor, Gerald, 1926-2007.
- Publication
- New York : New American Library, ©1983.
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Details
- Description
- 216 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The Disease Detectives takes you inside the Centers for Disease Control to meet the scientists to hunt with incredible vigilance for the nature and causes of such hugely publicized killers as Toxic Shock Syndrome and Legionnaire's Disease. But sometimes it is sheer chance that enables them to spot and stop such ancient threats as cholera, bubonic plague, and leprosy when they occasionally reappear today, seemingly from nowhere. These medical detectives tell dramatic tales of tracking down virtually unknown diseases to their far-off origins, and of unraveling such tangled puzzles as the outbreak of spontaneous abortions in a single large department store.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- The CDC on the case -- "One of the most dangerous things in the world" -- The John Snow disease -- The gay men's disease -- The sound of hoofbeats -- TSS -- Something did not go well with Coke -- A winter's tale of a summer disease -- The curse of the swineherd -- Hemorrhagic fevers -- The Black Death in New Mexico -- Getting into heavy metal -- The circling disease -- Investigations for the future.
- ISBN
- 0453004296
- 9780453004299
- LCCN
- 82022554
- OCLC
- ocm09083057
- 9083057
- SCSB-98064
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library