To Jean
with love, appreciation, and thanks
ne roy drugomu yamu, sam v neyo popadesh
(do not dig a hole for another,
you just might fall in it yourself)
VECTOR: (medical) a carrier that transmits an infectious agent from one host to another.
Dr. Ken Alibek, Program Manager, Battelle Memorial Institute, Arlington, Virginia. Formerly Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, First Deputy Chief of the Soviet Union's Biological Offensive Program.
Colonel Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., M.D., MC, U.S. Army, Chief Operational Medicine Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Jerome M. Hauer, Director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, New York City.
Jacki Lee, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Washington, D.C.
Raissa Rubenshteyn, M.D., Chief, Gynecological Medical Staff, Voronez City Hospital #8 in the former Soviet Union.
Charles Wetli, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner, Suffolk County, New York.