Avian Reservoirs

Avian Reservoirs

Author: Frédéric Keck

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1478007559

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After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.


Avian Reservoirs

Avian Reservoirs

Author: Frédéric Keck

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478006985

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After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.


Avian Reservoirs

Avian Reservoirs

Author: Frédéric Keck

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478006138

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After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow the mutations of flu viruses in birds and humans and create preparedness strategies, while in others, public health officials worked toward preventing pandemics by killing thousands of birds. In Avian Reservoirs Frédéric Keck offers a comparative analysis of these responses, tracing how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in China. Drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic fieldwork, Keck demonstrates that varied strategies dealing with the threat of pandemics—stockpiling vaccines and samples in Taiwan, simulating pandemics in Singapore, and monitoring viruses and disease vectors in Hong Kong—reflect local geopolitical relations to mainland China. In outlining how interactions among pathogens, birds, and humans shape the way people imagine future pandemics, Keck illuminates how interspecies relations are crucial for protecting against such threats.


Avian Virology

Avian Virology

Author: Siba K. Samal

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-14

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9781912530106

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An invaluable reference source for everyone working on avian diseases. It is also highly recommended for all veterinary school and university libraries.


Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds

Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds

Author: Robert E. Schmidt

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1118828224

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Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds, Second Edition provides a comprehensive reference to the gross and histologic features of diseases seen in pet and aviary birds, with more than 850 images depicting disease lesions. Provides a complete resource for identifying both common and not-so-common diseases in a wide range of avian species Includes more than 850 full-color images to show disease lesions Offers context for the interpretation of pathologic findings, promoting an understanding of the pathogenesis and epizootiology of disease Adds information on pigeons and chickens, pathophysiology, prognosis and trends, and globally relevant diseases Aids pathologists, diagnosticians, and avian veterinarians in identifying lesions in pet birds


The Anthropology of Epidemics

The Anthropology of Epidemics

Author: Ann H. Kelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0429868073

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Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts of shifts and ruptures as regards human/non-human relations. Bearing a particular mark on subject areas and questions which have recently come to shape developments in anthropological thinking, the volume brings epidemics to the forefront of anthropological debate, as an exemplary arena for social scientific study and analysis.


Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World

Author: John M. Marzluff

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-09-30

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780792374589

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The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban.


Epidemics in Modern Asia

Epidemics in Modern Asia

Author: Robert Shannan Peckham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1107084687

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The first history of epidemics in modern Asia. Robert Peckham considers the varieties of responses that epidemics have elicited - from India to China and the Russian Far East - and examines the processes that have helped to produce and diffuse disease across the region.


Practical Avian Medicine

Practical Avian Medicine

Author: Heidi L. Hoefer

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781884254345

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Brought together in one volume for the first time are the most informative articles from Compendium, as well as specially illustrated articles from Perspectives, on diagnosing, treating and caring for a wide variety of birds. With the handy index, use this book as your source for such avian issues as dermatology, egg binding, surgery, ophthalmology, electrosurgery, anaesthesia, and emergency care. Articles never before published have been added to the collection to form an indispensable tool for treating birds. Brilliant colour diagrams provide a visual reference for avian cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems.