Virulent zones : animal disease and global health at China's pandemic epicenter / Lyle Fearnley.
Virulent zones : animal disease and global health at China's pandemic epicenter / Lyle Fearnley.
Virulent zones : animal disease and global health at China's pandemic epicenter / Lyle Fearnley.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/5241
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English
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viii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The origins of pandemics -- Pathogenic reservoirs -- Livestock revolutions -- Wild goose chase -- Affinity and access -- Office vets and duck doctors.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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North Carolina
Date Published
2020.
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"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 paddy landscapes. One example is Poyang Lake, whi...
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Virulent zones : animal disease and global health at China's pandemic epicenter / Lyle Fearnley.
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Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
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G 2020/5241
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74VKaJqxymeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJqxymeX
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9781478009993
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614.5180951222
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991024368613102626
