Stalking Microbes (ISBN 1420820052)

Stalking Microbes:
A fascinating series of popular essays weaving the art and the science of infectious diseases with the expertise of a leading physician and epidemiologist, Richard Wenzel's new book, Stalking Microbes, illustrates the creativity and curiosity doctors need as successful warriors against illness. Wenzel pulls readers into the complex detective work surrounding a puzzling fatal outbreak in the ICU, a strange string of deaths around Charlottesville, VA, and the lessons learned in Bangladesh while studying cholera. Wenzel is a professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is President-Elect of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and Editor-at-Large of the New England Journal of Medicine. On the book's jacket author Sherwin Nuland describes "Stalking Microbes" as a "unique and page-turning read ... by one of (infectious diseases) ablest generals." Poet John Stone describes the author as "a wise and gentle Virgil ... an excellent storyteller."

A medical education that's fun to read.:
The series of epidemics or mysterious infections described in Stalking Microbes is, on the one hand, page turning suspence, and on the other hand a good education on handling the changing dangers of infection.