Virologist and epidemiologist Ali S. Khan takes readers on an eye-opening, entertaining journey through his many assignments and adventures as a "disease detective" for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Writing with business writer William Patrick, Khan explains…
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat - Ebola, SARS, Zika - seems imminent, we se…