John S. Marr, MD, author of The Eleventh Plague, served as director and principal epidemiologist for the New York City Department of Health. He is the coauthor of The Black Death and is the author of three books for children on public health concerns, drugs, smoking, and proper nutrition. Marr is also author of more than fifty medical journal articles and is a frequent op-ed contributor to the Medical Herald. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, daughter, three Jack Russell terriers, and a mutt rescued from a pit bull encounter.
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In California, two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistent in the United States. Hours later, thoroughbreds at the Churchill Downs are dying of an unidentified virus. Called in to shed light on these enigmas, virologist Jack Bryne discovers th... SEE MORE