Flu hunter : unlocking the secrets of a virus /
When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality. Enormous social disruption and substantial economic cost can result. The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic was undoubtedly the most devastating influenza pand...
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Dunedin, New Zealand :
Otago University Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Lance Jennings
- Emergence of the monster: Spanish influenza, 1918
- The start of influenza research
- From seabirds in Australlia to Tamiflu
- The search moves to wild ducks in Canada
- Delaware Bay: the right place at the right time
- Proving interspecies transmission
- Virologists visit China
- Hong Kong hotbed: live bird markets and pig processing
- Searching the world, 1975-95
- The smoking gun
- Bird flu: the rise and spread of H5N1
- The first pandemic of the 21st century
- SARS, and a second bird flu outbreak
- Digging for answers on the 1918 Spanish influenza
- Resurrecting the 1918 Spanish influenza
- Opening Pandora's Box
- Looking to the future: are we better prepared
- Foreword / by Lance Jennings
- Emergence of the monster: Spanish influenza, 1918
- The start of influenza research
- From seabirds in Australlia to Tamiflu
- The search moves to wild ducks in Canada
- Delaware Bay: the right place at the right time
- Proving interspecies transmission
- Virologists visit China
- Hong Kong hotbed: live bird markets and pig processing
- Searching the world, 1975-95
- The smoking gun
- Bird flu: the rise and spread of H5N1
- The first pandemic of the 21st century
- SARS, and a second bird flu outbreak
- Digging for answers on the 1918 Spanish influenza
- Resurrecting the 1918 Spanish influenza
- Opening Pandoras Box
- Looking to the future: are we better prepared