Albert Balows (January 3, 1921, Denver, Colorado – September 23, 2006, Fulton County, Georgia) was an American clinical microbiologist.
[1] From 1952 to 1969 Balows worked as a clinical microbiologist at the Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
In 1969 he moved to the Atlanta area to join the staff of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
[4] He did research on AIDS, toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease, Ebola virus, group B streptococci, Histoplasma capsulatum, and other problems in public health.
[4] He and his colleagues planned countermeasures against, and provided surveillance for, possible bioterrorist activity at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and helped to evaluate the safety of the White House's water supply and how to safeguard it against bioterrorism.