2: Scientists DR. JOSEPH B. MCCORMICK and DR. SUSAN FISHER-HOCH. Their book, in collaboration with Leslie Alan Horvitz, is "Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC" (Turner Publishing, Inc). It's a personal account of this husband/wife team's work with the world's most horrible diseases: Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, AIDS.... MCCORMICK was instrumental in the creation of the high-tech "hot zone" lab at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. He spent many years researching and treating patients in remote areas of the world and is now chairman of the Community Health Sciences Department of Aga Khan University in Pakistan. FISHER-HOCH was a pioneer in research on Legionnaire's Disease, Ebola and Lassa Fever. She is currently a professor at Aga Khan University.
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