Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
I. Storm Gathering
1. 1918
- a. “Humanity has but three…
- b. Purple Death
- c. “[A] dead man has no substance…
- d. “They died in heaps…
- e. “This is a detective story…
- f. Resurrection
2. Master of Metamorphosis
- a. Tiny Terrorists
- b. “A hen is only an egg's way…
- c. Something in the Air
- d. Makings of a Killer
- e. “But what gave this pestilence…
- f. “There is nothing permanent…
- g. Viral Sex
3. H5N1
- a. Hong Kong, 1997
- b. Fowl Plague
- c. Close Call
- d. “Next to a battle lost…
- e. What Happens to a Pandemic…
- f. Year of the Rooster
4. Playing Chicken
- a. “Where chicken soup used to cure…
- b. Cooking the Crap Out of It
- c. Handle with Care
- d. Soft-Boiled Truth
- e. Tastes Like Chicken
5. Worse Than 1918?
- a. Higher Human Learning
- b. Mano-a-Mano
- c. No Shot
- d. Bitter Pill
- e. Profit Motive
- f. Population Bust
- g. “Get rid of the ‘if.’…
6. When, Not If
- a. “It is coming.”
- b. Two Minutes to Midnight
- c. Flu Year’s Eve
- d. Catching the Flu
- e. Boots on the Ground
II. When Animal Viruses Attack
1. The Third Age
- a. Emerging Infectious Disease
- b. Their Bugs Are Worse…
- c. “Most and probably all…
- d. “Wherever the European has trod…
- e. The Plague Years
2. Man Made
- a. AIDS: A Clear-Cut Disaster
- b. Aggressive Symbiosis
- c. Wild Tastes
- d. Shipping Fever
- e. America’s Soft Underbelly
- f. Pet Peeves
- g. Pigs Barking Blood
3. Livestock Revolution
- a. Breeding Grounds
- b. Back to the Dark Ages
- c. Stomaching Emerging Disease
- d. Offal Truth
- e. Big Mac Attack
- f. Animal Bugs Forced to Join…
- g. Last Great Plague
4. Tracing the Flight Path
5. One Flu Over the Chicken's Nest
- a. Acute Life Strategy
- b. “In our efforts to streamline…
- c. Chicken Surprise
- d. Out of the Trenches
- e. A Chicken in Every Pot
- f. “You have to say…
6. Coming Home to Roost
- a. Overcrowded
- b. Stressful
- c. Filthy
- d. Lack of Sunlight
- e. Bred to Be Sick
- f. Monoculture
- g. Acquired Immunodeficiency…
7. Guarding the Henhouse
III. Pandemic Preparedness
1. Cooping Up Bird Flu
2. Race Against Time
3. Tamiflu
- a. “Access to medicines…
- b. Patent Nonsense
- c. End of the Line
- d. “The success or failure…
- e. Don't Need a Hurricane to Know…
IV. Surviving the Pandemic
1. Don't Wing It
2. Our Health in Our Hands
- a. Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
- b. Coughs and Sneezes…
- c. Washing Your Hands of the Flu
- d. There’s the Rub
- e. Masking Our Ignorance
3. Be Prepared
- a. Home Health Aid
- b. Collateral Damage
- c. Corpse Management
- d. Bird Flu Vultures Lining Up
- e. “We have learned very little…
- f. “In the absence of a pandemic…
V. Preventing Future Pandemics
1. Tinderbox
- a. Trojan Duck
- b. One Stray Spark
- c. Biosafety Level Zero
- d. Snowflakes to an Avalanche
- e. Worst of Both Worlds
2. Reining in the Pale Horse
- a. “Extreme remedies…
- b. “The modern world…
- c. “The single biggest threat…
- d. In a Flap
- e. The Price We Pay
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