Seymour Grufferman is a physician-epidemiologist who began his medical career as a pediatrician and went on to obtain two masters' degrees and a doctorate in public health from Har...показать большеSeymour Grufferman is a physician-epidemiologist who began his medical career as a pediatrician and went on to obtain two masters' degrees and a doctorate in public health from Harvard. After serving in the Air Force in Japan, he taught and practiced public health at the Gondar Public Health College in Ethiopia. He has held faculty positions at several universities-Haile Selassie I, Duke, Pittsburgh and New Mexico- teaching and doing research, and has published numerous articles in leading scientific journals. He taught courses in epidemiology in Third World countries such as Pakistan, Thailand and Zambia for the International Agency for Research on Cancer and has traveled widely from Afghanistan to Tanzania. He draws on these experiences to create vivid images of the novel's settings. After being invited to participate in conferences on US food safety, he became deeply concerned about the startling vulnerability of US food supplies to terrorist attack. This novel is intended as a wake-up call to America.показать меньше