Beating back the devil : on the front lines with the disease detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service / Maryn McKenna.

New York : Free Press, [2004], ©2004.

x, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Prologue : July 2002, Anniston, Alabama -- Training : July 2002, Atlanta -- Polio : 1955, Atlanta -- West Nile virus : August-October 2002, Atlanta -- Smallpox : 1972, Bangladesh -- Listeriosis : August-November 2002, Philadelphia -- AIDS : 1981, Los Angeles -- Uniformity : November-December 2002, Atlanta -- War : 1994, Zaire -- Malaria : March 2003, Malawi -- Tuberculosis : 1999-2000, Baltimore and New York -- Drug-resistant staphylococcus : March-June 2003, Los Angeles -- Terrorism : 2001, New York City and Washington, D.C. -- SARS : March-July 2003, Hanoi and Bangkok -- Epilogue : July-September 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-289) and index.