Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode.

By:

Olmstead, Alan L [author.]

Contributor(s):

Rhode, Paul Webb [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 465 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0674736044
9780674736047

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arresting contagion.DDC classification:

636.089/69 23

LOC classification:

SF781 .O46 2015eb

NLM classification:

SF 623

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Contents:

An enduring struggle -- Livestock disease environment and industry dynamics -- The battle to create the Bureau of Animal Industry -- The BAI in action: Establishing the area eradication model -- Bad blood: Deciphering Texas fever and confining its spread -- Contagions and crises: Foot-and-mouth disease -- The hog cholera puzzle: Controversy and discovery -- Trichinosis, trade, and food safety -- The benevolence of the butcher: The creation of federal meat inspection -- Bovine tuberculosis and the milk problem -- The eradication of Texas fever: Conflict and cooperation -- An impossible undertaking: Eradicating bovine tuberculosis -- Getting off the fix: Hog cholera eradication -- The mirror of the past.

Summary: Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections--border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs--turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-446) and index.

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Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections--border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs--turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy.

In English.

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