Monster at Our Door The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Name: Monster at Our Door The Global Threat of Avian Flu
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ISBN: 9780805081916

ISBN-10: 0805081917

ISBN-13: 9780805081916

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Mike Davis

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A " brilliant" and " fascinating" investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic-- and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe-- "The New York Times""" The virus known as H5N1 is now endemic among poultry and wild bird populations in East Asia. A flu strain of astonishing lethality, it has a talent for transforming itself to foil the human immune system-- and kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization now warns that avian flu is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious form that could travel at pandemic velocity, killing up to 100 million people within two years. In "The Monster at Our Door," the first book to sound this alarm,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface: Pieta



Evolution's Fast Lane



The Virulence of Poverty



The Wrong Lessons



Birds of Hong Kong



A Messy Story



Pandemic Surprise



The Triangle of Doom



Plague and Profit



Edge of the Abyss



Homeland Insecurity



Structural Contradictions



The Titanic Paradigm



Year of the Rooster


Conclusion


Avian Influenza Timeline


Notes


Index