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BOOK REVIEWS Yellow JackHowYellow FeverRavaged Americaand Walter ReedDiscovered ItsDeadly SecretsJohn R. Pierce and James V. WriterJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey, 2005Yellow Jack is a compelling andry. The book, which is highly readableknow this story, is based on a series ofJohn R. Pierce, for Stripetion of the Walter Reed Army MedicalCenter. Dr Pierce was a colonel in theand the efforts of Benjamin Rush toand George Miller Sternberg beforeand during the work of the US ArmyYellow Fever Board. Dr Finlay was alow fever virus, while Sternberg, aUS Army physician, claimed to haveetiologic agent of yellow fever. Army Yellow Fever Board, led byMajor Walter Reed. Yellow fever hadravaged North �America for 200contaminated items or poison air.elsewhere in the literature. The peri-section and an extensive bibliography.Additionally, 12 pages of photos andwish. Overall, however, this book is amedical history. It will have broadstory, the magnitude of the problemmend it highly.Stanton Cope**Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Address for correspondence: Stanton Cope,Commanding Officer, Naval Institute forDental and Bioomedical Research, 310AB St,Great Lakes, IL60088, USA; fax: 847-68804279; email: secope@nidbr.med.navy.mil 1652Emerging Infectious Diseases www.cdc.gov/eid Vol. 11, No. 10, October 2005 Correction: Vol. 11, No. 4Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia, Australia," byin Table 1, in line 10 of column 6, the value indicatingorgs) in Hospital E should be 1,296.http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol11no04/04-We regret any confusion this error may have caused.