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Joe McCormick

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Joseph B. McCormick, M.D., worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starting in 1974, and was made chief of the Special Pathogens Branch in 1982. He was responsible for the creation of the Level 4 containment structure at the CDC in Atlanta.

He and his wife, Susan Fisher-Hoch, are noted experts in dangerous diseases, particularly those of West Africa. Together they authored the book "Virus Hunters of the CDC."