| Description |
xii, 228 pages : 21 cm |
| Contents |
Preface : Pieta -- 1. Evolution's fast lane -- 2. The virulence of poverty -- 3. The wrong lessons -- 4. Birds of Hong Kong -- 5. A messy story -- 6. Pandemic surprise -- 7. The triangle of doom -- 8. Plague and profit -- 9. Edge of the abyss -- 10. Homeland insecurity -- 11. Structural contradictions -- 12. The Titanic paradigm -- 13. Year of the rooster |
| Summary |
"The virus known as H5N1 is now endemic among poultry and wild bird populations in East Asia. A flu strain with a talent for transforming itself to foil the human immune system, it kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization 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." |
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"In The Monster at Our Door, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of this viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles played by burgeoning slums, the agribusiness and fast-food industries, and corrupt governments. He tracks the avian flu crisis as the virus moves west and drug companies continue to prioritize moneymakers like Viagra over lifesaving vaccines. And he suggests strategies for averting this disaster - from funding an anti-pandemic campaign in Asia to shifting vaccine manufacture from the private sector to the public so that our global health resources are organized to protect not profits but people."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published in hardcover by the New Press |
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"Additional material 2006 by Mike Davis"--Copr. p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Avian influenza -- Popular works.
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| LC no. |
2006049445 |
| ISBN |
0805081917 paperback |
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