Word: brachman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the medical sleuths are not officially called disease detectives: they are commissioned officers in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, part of Dr. Philip Brachman's Bureau of Epidemiology. They use their most sophisticated laboratory devices to discover a virus or other killer, but their sleuthing also extends far outside the lab. In an outbreak of fever among Camp Fire Girls in California, for instance, the disease was easy to identify: malaria. The question was, who introduced it to the camp area? The disease detectives had to find not a microbe but a man. In an epidemic of food poisoning...