The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta started in 1940 as a small government agency founded for the purpose of eradicating malaria from the United States. Since then, the CDC has grown into a disease fighting behemoth whose sphere of action is the entire planet. This book shows how the CDC's viral shock troops have helped remove one deadly virus from the face of the earth, are scheduled to do the same with another by the end of the year 2000 & have similar lethal plans for a whole range of other microbes. This is the harrowing & heroic story of the CDC's disease cowboys who daily risk their lives in medical science's war against our most cunning & relentless enemies