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Edited by Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha, Ruth Lynfield, Chris A. Van Beneden, and Henriette de Valk. 538 pp., illustrated. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2007. $169. ISBN 978-1-4051-4266-3.

More than 100 years ago in London, William Farr plotted the geographic distribution of cholera deaths and John Snow surveyed his neighbors. Surveillance of infectious diseases has been, and continues to be, the most widely applied element of public health surveillance. The editors of Infectious Disease Surveillance note in their dedication that it is the "first critical step in protecting communities from infectious diseases." Yet, as the authors of the book's chapter on the Epidemic Intelligence Service point out, public health surveillance is "an area not often covered in academic training." Therefore, a survey of the surveillance of infectious diseases . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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