The Monster at Our Door
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The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

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The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

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The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and "its argument is irrefutable" ( The Independent ). Hailed by The Nation as a "master of disaster prose, " author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe, another global outbreak is all but inevitable. 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 alarming 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.

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Publisher
The New Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781595588531
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Global Development Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface: Pieta
  7. 1: Evolution’s Fast Lane
  8. 2: The Virulence of Poverty
  9. 3: The Wrong Lessons
  10. 4: Birds of Hong Kong
  11. 5: A Messy Story
  12. 6: Pandemic Surprise
  13. 7: The Triangle of Doom
  14. 8: Plague and Profit
  15. 9: Edge of the Abyss
  16. 10: Homeland Insecurity
  17. 11: Structural Contradictions
  18. 12: The Titanic Paradigm
  19. Conclusion: Year of the Rooster
  20. Notes
  21. Index