Preface  
About the Author  
Contributor List  
  Chapter 1 How an Outbreak is Investigated  
  Chapter 2 Leptospirosis at the Bubbles  
  Chapter 3 Cholera for a Dime  
  Chapter 4 Legionnaires’ Disease: Investigation of an Outbreak of a New Disease  
  Chapter 5 The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and Beyond  
  Chapter 6 The Early Days of AIDS in the United States: A Personal Perspective  
  Chapter 7 Verify the Diagnosis: A Pseudo-outbreak of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County  
  Chapter 8 Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons  
  Chapter 9 An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in a Medical Ward in Israel  
  Chapter 10 What Went Wrong? An Ancient Recipe Associated with Botulism in Modern Egypt  
  Chapter 11 Controlling an Outbreak of Shigellosis with a Community-Wide Intervention in Lexington, Kentucky  
  Chapter 12 Pork Tapeworm in an Orthodox Jewish Community: Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis  
  Chapter 13 The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium Infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993  
  Chapter 14 A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis A Involving Cooperation Between Public Health, the Media, and Law Enforcement, Iowa, 1997  
  Chapter 15 Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace  
  Chapter 16 Eschar: The Story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation  
  Chapter 17 Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Gabon: Chaos to Control  
  Chapter 18 Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County, Illinois  
  Chapter 19 Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination in Post-Civil War Liberia  
  Chapter 20 A Mumps Epidemic – Iowa, 2006