Acknowledgments

I am forever thankful for the tremendous help of the following Oregon Health Authority officials: Dr. Grant Higginson, M.D., MPH, former state health officer and deputy administrator, Public Health Division; Dr. Michael Skeels, Ph.D., MPH, director of the Oregon State Public Health laboratory; and Dr. Katrina Hedberg, M.D., MPH, state epidemiologist and chief science officer, Public Health Division.

Also, my gratitude goes to everybody at St. Martin’s Press for their faith in this project. To my editor, Keith Kahla, for his unparalleled understanding of how to make a story better. And for my agent, Janet Reid of FinePrint Lit, for blazing the trail.