Levitt

Alexandra Levitt Alexandra Levitt, the author of Deadly Outbreaks, is a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She received her graduate training in biology at Columbia University and her post-graduate training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As an Assistant Professor at New York University School of Medicine in […]
Deadly Outbreaks, Alexandra M. Levitt, Ph.D.

Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries. Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and […]