Pros: Well-written, newspaper reporter's style Cons: Too many irrelevant details on the search for the virus
With the national discussion focusing on bioterrorism and with a lot of "what if" scenarios floating both through the news and my mind, ("what if" a 'smallpox martyr' began coughing his way through busy airports or malls?"), I began looking for a book...
Pros: Provocative, disturbing, clear, based on interviews, a tribute and call to action Cons: The story is not over--the threat remains!
This book does inestimable service by enhancing public awareness of the critical problem with influenza—not only that in 1918 a killer strain of the common disease swept around the world and that such an event might just happen again, but also that a...
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