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Bird flu : a virus of our own hatching / Michael Greger.
- Title
- Bird flu : a virus of our own hatching / Michael Greger.
- Author
- Greger, Michael
- Publication
- New York, NY : Lantern Books, c2006.
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- Description
- xviii, 465 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The author explores the underlying conditions that would create a bird flu pandemic, examines the ways in which the public can protect themselves and their families, and describes what can be done to reduce the likelihood of spreading this disease.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-449) and index.
- Contents
- [ch. 1.] Storm gathering -- 1. 1918 -- 2. Master of metamorphosis -- 3. H5N1 -- 4. Playing chicken -- 5. Worse than 1918? -- 6. When, not if -- [ch. 2.] When animal viruses attack -- 7. The third age -- 8. Man made -- 9. Livestock revolution -- 10. Tracing the flight path -- 11. One flu over the chicken's nest -- 12. Coming home to roost -- 13. Guarding the henhouse -- [ch. 3.] Pandemic preparedness -- 14. Cooping up bird flu -- 15. Race against time -- 16. Tamiflu -- [ch. 4.] Surviving the pandemic -- 17. Don't wing it -- 18. Our health in our hands -- 19. Be prepared -- [ch. 5.] Preventing future pandemics -- 20. Tinderbox -- 21. Reining in the pale horse.
- ISBN
- 1590560981 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006027971
- OCLC
- 71146431
- SCSB-10271226
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library