Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control /

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 dise...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Olmstead, Alan L. (Author), Rhode, Paul Webb (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
United States > Bureau of Animal Industry
Communicable diseases in animals > United States > Prevention.
Livestock > Diseases > United States > Prevention.
Animals > Diseases > United States > Prevention.
Communicable diseases in animals > United States > Prevention > Decision making.
Animal health.
Food > Safety measures.
Animal Diseases > history
Disease Transmission, Infectious > prevention & control
Health Policy > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Santé animale.
Aliments > Sécurité > Mesures.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Animal health
Communicable diseases in animals > Prevention
Food > Safety measures
Livestock > Diseases > Prevention
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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