Whether a virus is unintentionally released via our modern transportation system, or deliberately by terrorists, even a small scale biological event could have a profound effect on our society. Yet our current public health system is completely unprepared to detect and respond quickly enough to avert a disease related crisis. Table of Contents<html> "Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Birds That Fell From the Sky -- West Nile Virus Chapter 2: A Corona of Death -- SARS Chapter 3: The Arroyo Muerte -- Sin Nombre Hantavirus Chapter 4: Outbreaks, Reservoirs and Dead End Hosts Chapter 5: Shards of Glass in the Brain -- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow) Chapter 6: Out of the Shadows -- Legionella Pneumophila (Legionnaire's Disease) Chapter 7: An Ill Wind -- Smallpox Chapter 8: Natural Born Killers --Why Some Germs Stay Bad Chapter 9: Something in the Water - Cholera, Cryptosporidiosis Chapter 10: When Hours Count - but Days Don't Matter - Anthrax Chapter 11 Pronouncing the Patient CURED Chapter 12: Project BIOWATCH - Plague Vials Vanish in Texas Chapter 13: A New Weapon in the Fight Chapter 14: Gold Nuggets and Influenza Vaccines -- DNA-based vaccines Chapter 15: Three Ounces of Prevention -- Scenarios involving Avian Bird Flu, Bioterrorism using Smallpox Chapter 16: Into a Crystal Ball, Darkly... Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Letter to Lev Sandhakchiev" About the Author<html> "Alan P. Zelicoff, M.D. (Albuquerque, NM) is a physician, physicist, and senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, an engineering and science lab operated by Sandia Corporation for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The inventor of the Syndrome Reporting Information System for the rapid dissemination of disease information, he has written for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Michael Bellomo (Burlingame, CA) holds a Six Sigma Black Belt certification and has worked for the Ares Corporation, a project and risk management firm that works with the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of Energy." Reviews "BioSecurity Newsletter: ""This thought provoking book is a must read for anyone with concerns about or responsibility for early detection and containment of either emerging infectious diseases or the management of an epidemic caused by bioterrorism. In this delightfully pithy volume, the authors manage to interweave the recounting of past public health system failures with some good introductory science and some important insights into the 'clinical thought process'....The clarity with which the authors discuss the strengths and weakness of the nation's current disease detection efforts and their shortfalls is refreshing and raises important policy issues."" www.electricreview.net: ""as important as it is gutsy -- discussing the fallibility of our health-defense structure in both enlightened and human terms."" Emerging Infectious Diseases (Center for Disease Control and Prevention e-newsletter): ..".a comprehensive, yet succinct, account of the threat to public health posed by microbial pathogens. What distinguishes this book from the surfeit of recent books hyping the threat of bioterrorism are its balanced perspective and elucidation of naturally emerging disease threats, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or West Nile virus, as exotic entities requiring a rapid and effective response; Mother Nature is quite the bioterrorist herself...This book is the best of its genre and is recommended for anyone interested in understanding and managing the risks associated with emerging microbial threats."" Albuquerque Sunday Journal: .".".the book is certainly valuable in making us aware of the problems in recognizing and reacting quickly to disease outbreaks, and to get us all thinking about possible solutions."" The News Herald (Michigan): ""they've [the authors] written an intelligent, fast-moving and provocative book that is good reading for anyone who is not afraid to see the public health challenges we all face."" | 
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