Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections

by NationalAcademyofSciences (Author), Madeline Drexler (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2002

  $23.97

  The war on germs is being fought on various fronts - from the skirmishes with disease-carrying mosquitoes that cross oceans hidden away in airline wheel wells to the high-profile battle against terrorists wielding deadly bioweapons. This book looks at infections and tells the stories of scientists racing to catch up with invisible adversaries.