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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

by Mike Davis

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From 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. 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 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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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
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rumyan1, June 21, 2006 (view all comments by rumyan1)
Monster At Our Door : Global Threat of Avian Flu (05 Edition)
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Sorry, but I should take the liberty to maintain that the widely proclaimed threat of influenza H5N1 epidemics is illusory. This imagined danger have been confirmed neither by current observation nor by entire plethora of medical knowledge.
I am frightfully shame for The World Health Organization which warns that H5N1 is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic form that will able visit billion homes within next years.
I am frightfully shame for the Bush administration which spends billions of our money to buy vaccine that they hope will be effective against the imagined ghost, i.e. this hypothetical mutant.
We don't understand why they do this, but should we trust them?
My position is based on scientific theses published for instance in the book entitled ?Biological weapon. A Terrible Reality? Profound Delusion? Skillful Swindling?? Vantage Press, New York, 2006
I am very agree with Mr. Mike Davis that the threat of bio-terrorism is hypothetical.
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ChefDennis, April 11, 2006 (view all comments by ChefDennis)
Scary but informative. Unfortunatly the "we are all going to die and it's Bush's fault" bit tends to lessen the impact and makes me question the motives of the author, other than making $ of course.
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ISBN:
9781595580115
Subtitle:
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
Author:
Davis, Mike
Publisher:
New Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Food Science
Subject:
Health Risk Assessment
Subject:
Diseases - Contagious
Subject:
Avian influenza
Subject:
Public Policy - General
Copyright:
2005
Publication Date:
January 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
212
Dimensions:
762x558x86 76
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