Virulent Zones : Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter /

"VIRULENT ZONES is an ethnography of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in rural China. In the early 1980s, Hong-Kong based virologists pinpointed southern China as an origin for influenza pandemics due to the region's entanglements of farming practices, animal husbandry, and wet-rice...

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Autore principale: Fearnley, Lyle (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Serie:Experimental futures.
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Sommario:
  • The origins of pandemics
  • Pathogenic reservoirs
  • Livestock revolutions
  • Wild goose chase
  • Affinity and access
  • Office vets and duck doctors.