Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter

by Lyle Fearnley

Book Overview

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147801105X
• ISBN13: 9781478011057
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"