Despite its past triumphs, the U.S.
Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control has had a bad press lately. As the Government's front-line fighters against epidemic disease, the CDC's dedicated scientists had to take much of the blame, justly or not, for the collapse of the nationwide swine flu program. Equally embarrassing, they were unable to identify the mysterious fever that killed 29 people and hospitalized scores of others after an American Legion convention in Philadelphia last summer.
Last week, after months of patient investigation, CDC officials in Atlanta proudly announced that one of the agency's researchers had apparently found the cause of...
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