Anthracis (SEE ORDERING BELOW)

The spectacular southwestern desert is alive with Bacillus anthracis spores, and the summer is the hottest on record. As a new veterinary epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Maya Maguire confronts the largest, most complex anthrax outbreak in U.S. history.

Infections in persons of color and immigration activists resonate with Maya’s search, as a Chinese-American adoptee, for a place in her American home. Younger than her fellow trainees and battling panic disorder from a horrific childhood accident, she struggles to solve an epidemic mystery in a physician-dominated public health world. From her home base in New Mexico, CDC sends her to join a federal team in Arizona, including provocative physician Dr. Manolo Miranda and tightlipped veterinarian Dr. Dave Schwartz.

The epidemic is linked to climate change—that’s the party line. But Homeland Security agents and the FBI are suspicious. Dave’s an anthrax expert and spores match his home Texas Triangle of Death. 

An invisible enemy, team secrets, and romantic missteps may derail Maya’s confidence. If she can’t find the source, thousands could perish from anthrax-laced heroin and tainted milk. Anthracis takes us to the front lines with scientists betting their lives and relationships on the investigation outcome.  

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Libraries and bookstores may request publisher information and ISBNs to place an order: Maya Maguire Media, Burlington Vermont; Publication date: October, 2021

978-1-955481-01-4 Ebook

978-1-955481-00-7 Paperback

978-1-955481-03-8 Large Print

978-1-955481-02-1 Hardcover

DONATIONS FROM SALES

• $50 from March, 2022 sales was donated for Ukraine relief to World Central Kitchen https://donate.wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout  
• $50 from Dec., 2021 sales was donated for climate change work to https://350.org/    

ABOUT ANTHRAX (Updated 3/6/21)

Anthrax | CDC

Florida Retiree Gets—and Survives—Anthrax | CDC

A review of cutaneous anthrax and its outcome - ScienceDirect

Anthrax through history (cnn.com)

Thawed reindeer carcass blamed in anthrax outbreak - CNN

More than 800,000 reindeer vaccinated against anthrax | The Independent Barents Observer (thebarentsobserver.com)

Tracking The Anthrax Spike In Texas - Texas A&M Today (tamu.edu)

Amerithrax or Anthrax Investigation — FBI

Cutaneous Anthrax Associated with Drum Making Using Goat Hides from West Africa --- Connecticut, 2007 (cdc.gov)

psr-2-4-nass.pdf (ippnw.org) – Anthrax in Zimbabwe, deliberate spread?