The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat Of Avian Flu

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• The Monster at Our Door The Global Threat of Avian Flu available on July 24 2024 from BiggerBooks for 8.76
  
• The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat Of Avian Flu available on December 25 2015 from Indigo for 25.5
  
• ISBN bar code 9780805081916 ξ1 registered July 24 2024
  
• ISBN bar code 9780805081916 ξ2 registered December 25 2015
  
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A flu strain of astonishing lethality, it has a talent for transforming itself to foil the human immune system-and kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization now warns that avian flu is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious form that could travel at pandemic velocity, killing up to 100 million people within two years.In The Monster at Our Door, the first book to sound this alarm, our foremost urban and environmental critic reconstructs the scientific and political history of this viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles played by burgeoning slums, the agribusiness and fast-food industries, and corrupt governments. Mike Davis tracks the avian flu crisis as the virus moves west and the world remains woefully unprepared to contain it. With drug companies unwilling to invest in essential vaccines, severe shortages persist, a scenario Davis compares to the sinking Titanic: there are virtually no lifesaving resources available to the poor, and precious few for the rich, too.

^ (2015). The Monster at Our Door The Global Threat of Avian Flu BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780805081916 (revised Jul 2024)
^ The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat Of Avian Flu Indigo. ISBN 9780805081916 (revised Dec 2015)