Publisher's Synopsis
Kimberly Bergalis is gone, but the provocative public health questions her case raised refuse to die.The New York Times called the Bergalis case ?one of the biggest mysteries in the annals of epidemiology.? In this compelling book Fatal Extraction, Mark Carl Rom unravels the mystery of the Florida coed who claimed her dentist gave her HIV and, in so doing, puts our public health system under the microscope.