Selected Publications

Samples of Fiction and Non-fiction

Review of Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge, by David Koplow. In ASM News (In Press).

"A Lion in Lyon." Travelmag. Posted 13 June 2003.

"Sent to Siberia." Travelmag. Posted 16 May 2003.

"The Study Section Murders." Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. 29(2003):54-59.*

"Yersiniosis." Encyclopedia Britannica. Online Edition. 2002.

“Necrotizing Faciitis.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Online Edition. 2002.

“Campylobacter jejuni.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Online Edition. 2002.

"Raccoons, Parasites and the Potential for Bioterrorism." ASM News. 68(2002):539-540.

"Obsession." FictionAddiction.Net. Online September 18, 2002.

"Walk Like an American?" Millennium Shift, June 21, 2002.

"Bad Lungs." The Year's Best Writing, Writer's Digest, March 2002. *

Review of A Gap in Nature. Discovering the World's Extinct Animals, by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten. In New York Times Book Review. 25 Nov. 2001.

Review of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox, by Jonathan Tucker. In HMS Beagle, 8 Nov. 2001.

Review of Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe, by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio. In HMS Beagle, 6 July 2001.

Review of Plague Time, by Paul Ewald. In HMS Beagle, 19 Jan. 2001.

Review of The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right, by Pat Shipman. In Salon.Com, 18 Jan. 2001.

Review of The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty, by Walter Gratzer. In Salon.Com. 30 Nov. 2000.

Review of Biography of a Germ, by Arno Karlen. In HMS Beagle, 4 Aug. 2000.

Review of Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response. JAMA. 283 (2000):2035-36.

"An Address to AAAS." Science, 286, (1999):2462-64. *

"Hot Times for Hot Labs." ASM News, 65 (1999):743-46.

Selected Letters

"Hidden Epidemic." Warwick Beacon. June 5, 2003.

"Lack of Trained Security Staff Delays US Visas." Nature. 2003 May 8;423:115-116.

"No Academic Police State, Thank You." The Scientist, April 14, 2003.

"Chronic Lyme disease is up for Debate." The Day. March 16, 2003.

"Delivering Fear Via the U.S. Mail." Washington Post. March 11, 2003, pp. A22.

"Long-Term Effects of Antiterrorism Legislation." ASM News. February 2003, pp. 53.

"Why People Go Fishing for Drugs." Washington Post. August 27, 2002, pp. H02.

"Screening Foreign Scholars." Science. 2002 Aug 2;297:771-2.

"A Different Look at 'Chronic Lyme disease'." East Bay Newspapers Online, April 25, 2002.

"Help Wanted." The Atlantic Monthly, January 2002, pp. 13.

"More Bitter Feuding Over LymeRix." HMS Beagle, 3 Aug. 2001.

"The Impact of Lyme Disease on School Children." J. Sch. Nurs. 17 (2001):170.

"Portugal: A Case History in S&T Cooperation." Science. 291(2001):2549-50.

"Pox Warning. New Scientist." February 3, 2001.

List of Publications via PubMed, List of Peer-Reviewed Publications