In 1987 Gest published a book called The World of Microbes, which was basically a microbiology primer for the layman who doesn't know a bacteria from a virus. I suppose if he'd written it a few years later it could have been a "for Dummies" book. This book was translated in to several other languages, including French and Japanese. After 9/11 when fear of anthrax and other forms of (badly-reported) bio-terrorism were all over the news, Gest attempted to interest certain departments of the government in buying backstock or printing a new edition.
I'm not sure if anyone took him up on it. Since it seems to bookend a fairly large file on The World of Microbes, I'm guessing sadly not.
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