Arresting Contagion

by Alan L. Olmstead

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674967229
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/09/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

Contents List of Figures and Tables 1. An Enduring Struggle 2. Livestock Disease Environment and Industry Dynamics 3. The Battle to Create the Bureau of Animal Industry 4. The BAI in Action: Establishing the Area Eradication Model 5. Bad Blood: Deciphering Texas Fever and Confining Its Spread 6. Contagions and Crises: Foot- and- Mouth Disease 7. The Hog Cholera Puzzle: Controversy and Discovery 8. Trichinosis, Trade, and Food Safety 9. The Benevolence of the Butcher: The Creation of Federal Meat Inspection 10. Bovine Tuberculosis and the Milk Problem 11. The Eradication of Texas Fever: Conflict and Cooperation 12. An Impossible Undertaking: Eradicating Bovine Tuberculosis 13. Getting Off the Fix: Hog Cholera Eradication 14. The Mirror of the Past Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index