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In the public health arena, the current United States infectious disease surveillance infrastructure was recently the subject of an extensive review by the US Department of Health and Human Services [ 1 ] . That review identified substantial weaknesses in existing capacity to detect four major threats to public health - emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, and pandemic influenza.
At the same time, life-threatening infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria continue to affect billions of people, and a rapidly escalating HIV/AIDS pandemic now kills more than 8,300 people each day [1].
In many of the countries worst affected by the HIV pandemic, scarcity of resources will mean that not everyone that could potentially benefit from ARVs will be able to access them.
Like fiscal capital, human resources are essential to ending the AIDS pandemic.
Kolata, a science writer for the New York Times , has produced "an extraordinary account of one of the most significant public health tragedies of this century" (Elizabeth Whelan, the Washington Times ). Even more fascinating than her account of the original pandemic, Kolata tails the various groups of scientists and the divergent paths they traveled as they unraveled the virus' secrets.