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title: "Beating Back the Devil"
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# Beating Back the Devil

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			        		Robin Marantz Henig, author of &quot;A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses&quot; Even people who think they know about the CDC and its elite corps of physicians, the Epidemic Intelligence Service, will be surprised by &quot;Beating Back the Devil, &quot; a rare inside account of how EIS works in an age of terrorist threat. McKenna hopscotches the globe -- from a malaria outbreak in Malawi to SARS in Vietnam -- to bring to life some of the most compelling mysteries confronted by these fearless disease detectives.Marilyn W. Thompson, author of &quot;The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed&quot; In her enthralling first book, Maryn McKenna takes us inside the unexplored world of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a vital but rarely discussed part of our national public health service. Without McKenna&apos;s thorough research and lively narrative, who would have known of the crusading role the EIS has played since the 1950s in solving our most perplexing medical mysteries? In a new world of bioterror threats and harrowing viruses, McKenna&apos;s book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the daunting medical challenges of the future.Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., author of &quot;When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed&quot; In the tradition of Laurie Garrett and Richard Preston, medical journalist Maryn McKenna tells the fascinating story of some of the most intrepid medical detectives at work today: the Centers for Disease Control&apos;s Epidemic Intelligence Service. &quot;Beating Back the Devil&quot; is both an accessible and detailed account of how these microbe hunters survey, contain, and combat deadly germs in the twenty-first century. It&apos;s also a great read.&quot;Even people who think they know about the CDC and its elite corps of physicians, the Epidemic Intelligence Service, will be surprised by &quot;Beating Back the Devil, &quot; a rare inside account of how EIS works in an age of terrorist threat. McKenna hopscotches the globe -- from a malaria outbreak in Malawi to SARS in Vietnam -- to bring to life some of the most compelling mysteries confronted by these fearless disease detectives.&quot;&quot;In the tradition of Laurie Garrett and Richard Preston, medical journalist Maryn McKenna tells the fascinating story of some of the most intrepid medical detectives at work today: the Centers for Disease Control&apos;s Epidemic Intelligence Service. &quot;Beating Back the Devil&quot; is both an accessible and detailed account of how these microbe hunters survey, contain, and combat deadly germs in the twenty-first century. It&apos;s also a great read.&quot;&quot;In her enthralling first book, Maryn McKenna takes us inside the unexplored world of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a vital but rarely discussed part of our national public health service. Without McKenna&apos;s thorough research and lively narrative, who would have known of the crusading role the EIS has played since the 1950s in solving our most perplexing medical mysteries? In a new world of bioterror threats and harrowing viruses, McKenna&apos;s book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the daunting medical challenges of the future.&quot;--Marilyn W. Thompson, author of The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Maryn McKenna is an award-winning science and medical writer and author of Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (named one of the top 10 science books of 2004 by ). She currently works as a contributing writer for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and is a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and has also studied at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Minneapolis.
						    	
					    	
						
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