The ScienceBlogs Book Club has come back to life, and is now featuring Mark Pendergrast's Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Mark Pendergrast's introductory post is well worth a read. He describes Alexander Langmuir, the "visionary leader" who founded the Epidemic Intelligence Service within the CDC in 1951; gives examples of some of the many different kinds of outbreaks EIS officers deal with; and identifies some of the ways the EIS has evolved over the past several decades.
I'll be putting up a couple of posts about Inside the Outbreaks…
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