Includes bibliographical references and index.

How an outbreak is investigated / Mark S. Dworkin -- Leptospirosis a t the bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson -- Cholera for a dime / Paul A. Blake -- Legionnaire's disease : investigation of an outbreak of a new diseas e / Steven Thacker -- The investigation of toxic shock syndrome in Wisc onsin, 1979-1980 and beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis -- The early days of AID S in the United States : a personal perspective / Harold W. Jaffe -- Ve rify the diagnosis : a pseudo-outbreak of amebiasis in Los Angeles Coun ty / Frank Sorvillo -- Measles among religiously exempt persons / Charl es E. Jennings -- An outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in a medical war d in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow -- What went wrong? An ancient recipe a ssociated with botulism in modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber -- Controlling an outbreak of shigellosis with a community-wide intervention in Lexing ton County, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani --

Pork tapeworm in an orthodox Jewish community : arriving at a biolog ically plausible hypothesis / Peter Schantz, Mary Bartlett -- The massi ve waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidium infections, Milwaukee, Wiscon sin, 1993 / Jeffrey P. Davis -- A community outbreak of hepatitis a inv olving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforcemen t in Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk ... [et al.] -- Tracking a syphilis outbreak through cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner -- Eschar : the stor y of the New York City department of health 2001 anthrax investigation / Don Weiss, Marci Layton -- Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon : chaos t o control / Daniel G. Bausch -- Whipping whooping cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin -- Emergency yellow fever mass vacci nation in post-civil war Liberia / Gregory Huhn -- A mumps epidemic : I owa, 2006 / Patricia Quinlisk.