Disease Detectives

8 February 2006

Wednesday 8 February 2006 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)

Profile of the work of the epidemiologist, the disease detective, who uses deductive and diagnostic skills to identify, as well as contain, outbreaks of infectious disease. The rapid-response detection of disease epidemics is exhilarating, fascinating and often dangerous work. The stakes are high. Killer diseases have no respect for national or political borders, and in a increasingly mobile and globalised world the rapid spread of outbreaks is easier than it has ever been. Vivienne Parry investigates.

Read Disease detectives - always on alert, Vivienne Parry's article for BBC News interactive

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