Book description
The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.
They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and triesā¦
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1 author picked Beating Back the Devil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
After you read The Hot Zone, you thought you really knew what an infectious epidemiologist does, didnāt you? Not so fast. Thatās why you need to read this book. McKennaās meticulous research gives you a sneak peek into how front-line CDC outbreak investigators dealt with Ebola, SARS, and more.
From Steffanie's list on for armchair infectious disease epidemiologists.
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On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictiveā¦
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