Product Description: Deeply researched revelation of escalating danger of drug-resistant bacteria, MSRA.

Product Description: IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there...read more

A portrait of the detective corps of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shares information about their work in countering such threats as SARS, the anthrax attacks, and the West Nile virus.