Secret Agents : The Menace of Emerging Infections

by Drexler, Madeline (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780142002612
• ISBN10: 0142002615
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

As timely as it is urgent, this well-researched book from veteran science journalist Madeline Drexler delivers a compelling report on today's most ominous infectious disease threats. She focuses on a different danger in each chapter-from the looming risk of lethal influenza to in-depth information on the public health perils posed by bioterrorism. With a novelist's descriptive eye and a thriller writer's sense of tension, she warns us that the most ceaselessly creative bioterrorist is still Mother Nature, whose microbial operatives are all around us, ready to pounce when conditions are right.

Author Biography

Madeline Drexler is a science and medical journalist. Formerly a medical columnist for The Boston Globe Magazine, she was a 1996-1997 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She was awarded the 1992 International Biomedical Science Journalism Prize by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The American Prospect, Self, Good Housekeeping, and many other national publications.

Table of Contents

Disease in Disguise	1	(18)
Winged Victories	19	(55)
Food Fright	74	(45)
Superbugs	119	(39)
The Once and Future Pandemic	158	(43)
Infection Unmasked	201	(30)
Bioterror	231	(44)
Think Locally, Act Globally	275	(16)
Afterword	291	(4)
Selected Bibliography	295	(6)
Index	301