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Alexandra M. Levitt

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Alexandra Levitt is a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who began her scientific career as a molecular biologist at the New York University School of Medicine. During a fellowship year as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Diplomacy Fellow assigned to the US Department of State, Dr. Levitt coordinated a government-wide review of the global health and security threat posed by emerging infectious diseases. Since joining the CDC in 1995, she has prepared policy reports on global health, bioterrorism, and pandemic influenza, and drafted critical case studies of large and unusual outbreak responses, including the 1993 outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the United States and the 1995 outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Dr. Levitt resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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    • Deadly Outbreaks

    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2013
    • Language: English
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