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Author Davis, Mike, 1946-2022

Title The monster at our door : the global threat of avian flu / Mike Davis.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  614.518 D263M    Check Shelf
Edition First Owl Books edition, Rev. and expanded.
Description xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents 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 -- Year of the rooster -- Avian influenza timeline.
Note "A Metropolitan/Owl book."
"Originally published in hardcover in 2005 by the New Press"--T.p. verso.
"Additional material 2006 by Mike Davis"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index.
Subject Influenza in Birds -- Popular Works.
Avian influenza -- Popular works.
ISBN 0805081917
9780805081916
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