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: 9781595580115

ISBN-10: 1595580115

ISBN-13: 9781595580115

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mike Davis

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From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat. "We are talking at least seven million deaths, but maybe more10 million, 20 million, and the worst case, 100 million."Shigeru Omi, Regional Director, western pacific office of the World Health Organization, November 2004 Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe, another world catastrophe is imminent. A virus of astonishing lethality, known as H5N1, has become entrenched in the poultry and wild bird populations of…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.52" wide x 7.72" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.748
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


Conclusion : year of the rooster