re: #175 marko

Oh, for Pete’s sake.

It’s amazingly simple to Google for the term “disease detective,” and guess what you’ll find if you do?

blogs.scientificamerican.com

I can call them geeks because I was one of them. Like many former disease detectives, I attended the 63rd annual conference of the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC in April. At that time, many disease detectives - or Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers as they’re formally called - had already been deployed to West Africa to help with the outbreak response.