The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Mike Davis

192 pages, parution le 20/12/2005

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Résumé

Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe, another world catastrophe is imminent.

A virus of astonishing lethality, known as H5N1, has become entrenched in the poultry and wild bird populations of East Asia. It kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization warns that it is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic form that could visit several billion homes within two years.

In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague. He also details the scandalous failure of the Bush administration, obsessed with hypothetical "bio-terrorism," to safeguard Americans from the greatest biological threat since HIV/AIDS.

L'auteur - Mike Davis

Mike Davis enseigne l'histoire urbaine à l'université de Californie. Chercheur indépendant doté d'une grande curiosité interdisciplinaire, personnage inclassable de la gauche américaine, Mike Davis est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages, parmi lesquels City of Quartz. Los Angeles, capitale du futur (La Découverte, 1998 ; nouvelle édition 2000), Génocides tropicaux (La Découverte, 2003 ; nouvelle édition 2006), Le pire des mondes possibles (La Découverte, 2005) et Petite Histoire de la voiture piégée (Zones, 2007).

MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities, and-with Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller-Under the Perfect Sun. He lives in San Diego.

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Sommaire

Preface: Pieta
Evolution's Fast Lane
The Virulence of Poverty
The Wrong Lessons
Birds of Hong Kong
A Messy Story
Pandemic Surprise
The Triangle of Doom
Plague and Profit
Edge of the Abyss
Homeland Insecurity
Structural Contradictions
The Titanic Paradigm
Conclusion: Year of the Rooster
Notes
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The New Press
Auteur(s)	Mike Davis
Parution	20/12/2005
Nb. de pages	192
Format	14 x 19,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	343g
Intérieur	2 couleurs
EAN13	9781595580115
ISBN13	978-1-59558-011-5