Mark G. Kortepeter

Inside the Hot Zone (eBook, ePUB)

A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2021 William E. Colby Award Finalist Inside the Hot Zone is an insider's account of one of the most dangerous workplaces on earth: the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Retired U.S. Army Col. Mark G. Kortepeter, a leading biodefense expert, recounts his journey from the lecture hall to the role of department chief, to the battlefield, to the Biosafety Level-4 maximum containment lab, and finally, to the corner office. During Kortepeter's seven and a half years in leadership at USAMRIID, the United States experienced some of the most serious threats in modern germ warfare, including the specter of biological weapons during the Iraq War, the anthrax letters sent after 9/11, and a little-known crisis involving a presumed botulism attack on the president of the United States. Inside the Hot Zone is a shocking, frightening eye-opener as Kortepeter describes in gripping detail how he and his USAMRIID colleagues navigated threats related to anthrax, botulism, smallpox, Lassa, and Ebola. Kortepeter crafts a rich and riveting narrative as he wrestles with life-and-death decisions managing biological weapon exposures. The stories are real, but they could just as easily serve as plotlines in popular fiction or Hollywood thrillers. He gives the reader a seat at the table as each crisis unfolds, with an unvarnished and personal perspective on the dangers, the drama, the fear, the frustrations, the irony, and the uncertainty he encountered as a physician in the role of "Biodefender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640122765
• Artikelnr.: 72427867

Autorenporträt

Mark G. Kortepeter is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a retired army colonel with more than twenty-five years of service. He is an expert in germ warfare defense and has held multiple leadership roles at the nation’s largest containment laboratory dedicated to biological warfare defense, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface    
Prologue: Exposure    
1. Beginnings    
2. Germs as Weapons    
3. The Six “Chessmen of Doom”    
4. Hoofbeats    
5. The Queen Strikes    
6. The Nation’s Bio-Emergency Hotline    
7. The Pawn Comes Calling    
8. Bioweapons 101    
9. Preparing for Biological Warfare    
10. Disaster from Within    
11. Bow to King Smallpox    
12. On the Front Lines    
13. Desert Pneumonia    
14. The 4M Disaster    
15. Countermeasures    
16. The Slammer    
17. On the Hot Side    
18. Descent into Hell    
19. Suspicion    
20. The Aftermath    
21. Down for the Count    
22. Behind the Scenes of Pandemic Response    
23. Looking Forward—the Challenges Continue    
Afterword    
Acknowledgments    
Glossary    
Notes    
Index