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INSIDE THE OUTBREAKS: THE ELITE MEDICAL DETECTIVES OF THE EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE SERVICE By Mark Pendergrast New York (NY): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2010 418 pp., $28.00
In 1951 the epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir founded the US government's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), now a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In detailing the story of the EIS in Inside the Outbreaks, Mark Pendergrast creates a...