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These brand-new plagues are scary enough. But, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, "the reality is, we're facing problems greater than Ebola. We have untreatable infections in our hospitals here in the U.S. right now. Food-borne illness has become one of the fastest-growing community-health problems. We know another flu pandemic is coming. To me, these things are of much more concern than something terrible from the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...worst-case scenario is here," warns Fred Tenover, chief of the CDC's Nosocomial [hospital-transmitted] Pathogens Laboratory. "We are seeing infections that are no longer treatable because the bacterium is resistant to every significant antibiotic ever developed. And, for now, no new drugs are coming down the pike." Drug companies are belatedly working to create new antibiotics, but results are years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...unlike Ebola or hantavirus, it kills only a small percentage of those who get it. But unlike those two more horrific diseases, the flu is so contagious that nearly everyone gets it. That's what happened in 1918, when 20 million people died. Says Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's influenza branch: "We can say with certainty that there will be another pandemic. We just don't know when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

When that awful time does come, the CDC will be ready. Samples of the new strain will be rushed to the CDC's complex in Atlanta, essentially the Pentagon of the nation's disease-fighting armies. Influenza work goes on in a place known as Building 7, but virtually every other disease organism is imprisoned and studied inside Building 15, a massive edifice that sits a bit apart from the other structures. It has only one entrance, monitored constantly by cameras and motion sensors. Its door opens only to those carrying specially authorized magnetic cards. There is reason for such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

This is where the hantavirus was identified, where Ebola and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and South American Junin virus are all studied for clues to how to stop them. And it is here at the CDC that a new, deadly flu virus would be sent so scientists could race against time to develop a vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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