The fatal strain
Alan Sipress
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The fatal strain
by Alan Sipress
Published
2011
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9780143118305
Description
A riveting account of why science alone can't stop the next pandemicWhen avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early-2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress details how socioeconomic and political realities in Asia make it the perfect petri dish in which the fast-mutating strain can become easily communicable among humans. Once it does, the ease and speed of international travel and worldwide economic interdependence could make it as destructive as the flu pandemic of 1918.In his vivid portrayal of the struggle between man and microbe, Sipress gives a front-line view of the accelerating number of near misses across Asia and the terrifying truth that the prospects for this impending health crisis may well be in the hands of cockfighters, live chicken merchants, and witch doctors rather than virologists or the World Health Organization.Like The Hot Zone and The Great Influenza, The Fatal Strain is a fast-moving account that brings the inevitability of an epidemic into a fascinating cultural, scientific, and political narrative.
Subjects
The Great Bird Flu Hoax
The Bird Flu Handbook
Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza : Scientific Inquiry, Communication, Controversy
Review of the issues related to the prevention, detection, and eradication of avian influenza
Bird Flu What to Do
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Who is the author of The fatal strain?
The fatal strain was written by Alan Sipress.
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