📖 Second-hand book "Epidemiological Investigation Bureau" [80% new]

★ Classic reports from the front line of global public health

★ Decoding the daily work of the Epidemic Investigation Bureau under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

★ Combing through the first-hand data of EIS, tracing the path of pathogens

★ Panoramic historical record of human struggle against epidemics

"Epidemic Investigation Service: We Are Medical Detectives" is a classic popular science book in the field of public health. EIS is affiliated with the U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and is the world's earliest field epidemiology training program. It provides epidemiology training courses for trainees, especially sending trainees to the United States and other countries to conduct field investigations of various diseases (mainly sudden epidemics). The author Mark Pendergrast spent 6 years interviewing more than 500 EIS alumni or family members. Based on a large amount of valuable first-hand information, this popular science work introduces the arduous and arduous epidemiological investigation work carried out by EIS over the past half century in a panoramic manner, showing the qualities and minds required for field epidemiological investigations. He is worthy of the reputation of Sherlock Holmes in the medical community, revealing the experience and lessons of epidemiological investigations, and also showing the efforts and determination of mankind to fight against epidemics.

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