| The Monster at Our Door Contributor(s): Davis, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595580115 ISBN-13: 9781595580115 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: The World Health Organization warns avian influenza H5N1--which kills two out of every three people it infects--is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic that could visit several billion homes within two years. Davis details the emergence of this new plague. 35,000 prpint |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Contagious |
| Dewey: 636.508 |
| LCCN: 2005043853 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.58" W x 7.62" (0.76 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 East Asia. It kills two out of three people it infects. The World Health Organisation warns that it is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic form that could visit several billion homes within two years. In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse-in-the-making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague. He also details the scandalous failure of the Bush administration, obsessed with hypothetical bio-terrorism, to safeguard Americans from the greatest biological threat since HIV/AIDS. sacrificed the poor in Africa and South Asia, for whom, in the almost certain event of a pandemic, there will be no anti-virals or vaccines. |