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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
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9781595580115
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New Press
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Family & Health
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Hardcover
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212
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Year
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2005
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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 prpintFrom 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 more--10 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. In1918, 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 every three people it infects. The World Health Organization 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.
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