The chickens fight back : pandemic panics and deadly diseases that jump from animals to humans / David Waltner-Toews.
Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are -- for the moment, at least -- far more prevalent in animals than in humans. Still, the knowledge that measles, TB, and smallpox were at one time "emerging" diseases that eventually made a permanent, and quite deadly, jump to humans g...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g [pt. 1]. |t Of pandemic panic -- |g 1. |t An image looking for a story -- |g 2. |t Epidemics, pandemics, and zoonoses : an introduction -- |g [pt. 2]. |t And scurrying beasties -- |g 3. |t Plagues, rats, and the perfection of fleas -- |g 4. |t The world looking at itself -- |g 5. |t Biting flies, kissing bugs, and sleeping sickness -- |g [pt. 3]. |t Of singing and flight -- |g 6. |t Western equine encephalitis, television, and air conditioning -- |g 7. |t West Nile Virus and the St. Louis Blues -- |g 8. |t The chickens fight back -- |g [pt. 4]. |t And things that go bump in the night -- |g 9. |t Out of nowhere : Nipah Virus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- |g 10. |t The darkness bleeds in : Lassa, Ebola, and Marburg -- |g 11. |t Splashing through rat piss : leptospires and hantaviruses -- |g 12. |t All the rage -- |g [pt. 5]. |t With all our most constant companions -- |g 13. |t Abortion in the sandbox and other pet problems -- |g 14. |t Poker players' pneumonia -- |g 15. |t Bang's disease and the White Plague -- |g 16. |t Dog parasites in the land of the gods -- |g [pt. 6]. |t Shall we tell our tales of woe and delight -- |g 17. |t The meaning of Pulcher's omen -- |t Selected readings -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index. |
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