An enduring struggle -- Livestock disease environment and industry dynamics -- The battle to create the Bureau of Animal Industry -- The BAI in action: Establishing the area eradication model -- Bad blood: Deciphering Texas fever and confining its spread -- Contagions and crises: Foot-and-mouth disease -- The hog cholera puzzle: Controversy and discovery -- Trichinosis, trade, and food safety -- The benevolence of the butcher: The creation of federal meat inspection -- Bovine tuberculosis and the milk problem -- The eradication of Texas fever: Conflict and cooperation -- An impossible undertaking: Eradicating bovine tuberculosis -- Getting off the fix: Hog cholera eradication -- The mirror of the past
Summary
Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections--border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs--turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-446) and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (DeGruyter platform, viewed February 25, 2016)
