" 'Hot Zone' hits home"

Until recently, the threat posed by infectious diseases seemed either yesterday's news (tuberculosis was almost wiped out, after all) or the stuff of science fiction. Today, scientists and researchers know better, as they battle new and often drug-resistant microbes--and some old foes still around--that have now made infectious diseases the third leading cause of death in the United States.

- Newsline, American Medical Association Alliance, February 1996

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