Greger, who is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States and "an internationally recognized lecturer on public health issues", launches into Viral Biology 101, explaining in layman's terms how a virus reproduces, spreads, mutates, and interacts with its host. The How Not To Die Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease, How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease, How Not To Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss, How Not To Die Cookbook Michael Greger, Plant Anomaly Paradox Diet Evolution, Plant Based Cookbook For Beginners 4 Books Collection Set, The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness. One thing to note: influenza in its various forms began as a bird flu.
From age-old scourges such as smallpox and tuberculosis to emerging threats like AIDS and SARS, our interactions with animals have always played a pivotal role as a source of human disease. First, address how chickens and other commercial birds are raised. Very well written. If it is akin to the first two choices, Americans will be faced with one of the worst health threats in its history. It also can help people understand the urgency of a possible avian flu pandemic as it now exists, and how it could affect the health and well-being of people everywhere.—.
Animals, particularly "broiler" (meat) and "laying" (egg) hens, are packed into windowless sheds by the thousands; by the time they're fully grown just 45 days later (in the case of broiler hens), they don't even have enough space to spread their wings or turn around. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe. Superb work on avian flu history and how to plan for a pandemic, Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2007. `When pneumonia appeared,' Major Brem recounted, `the patients often spat quantities of almost pure blood.' To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Virtually all of the official emergency preparedness materials and health department websites echo the mantra that because influenza viruses are natural (true), therefore H5N1 is natural(not entirely) and consequently, this particular pandemic is also "natural" (not so). Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013. . Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014.
Prevention of the emergence of a virulent virus that can be transmitted from human to human is a priority for the author. The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease, How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease, Carbophobia: The Scary Truth About America's Low-carb Craze, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health, The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health, Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes, Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic, Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome, Greger's work is imbued with deep commitment, discerning intelligence, and life-affirming compassion. Will this version of Avian Flu be a killer as bad as the great Pandemic Flu of 1918 (also an avian flu)? Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Is bird flu-inspired panic just another example of media sensationalism? 3/ Thus far, (Coronavirus included), contagious diseases have been high%-contagious, high%-fatal, (or neither), but *not both*. Michael Greger's book, "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching," explores H5N1 (the current strain of the virus that has generated so much concern)--from its origins, to its transmission, to its potential lethality, to how we might work to minimize the death and destruction that a pandemic might cause.
It is clearly written and in a form that is accessible for the non-scientist. This serves as a starting point for considering H5N1. If the H5N1 strain does not lose its killing power (and it may, since some lethal strains become less lethal with time), this suggests a destructive potential that is almost unimaginable.
The result is to allow us finally to understand why we are staring down the barrel of this pandemic gun and that we ourselves (well, some of us....) designed and loaded it. Many people are aware of the Black Death, which hit in 1347. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads.
His writing is lucid and sensible, and his research complete.
The final 1/3 of this book contains all of the references, mainly from scientists and government who probably have some idea of what they are talking about. More relevant than ever in 2020. Something went wrong. This text provides the reader with an excellent background on the current situation and how we arrived here. This book sets the record straight: 1/Most, perhaps all human contagious diseases were initiated by contact w/ domesticated animals, even under the best circumstances.
--Julie Gerberding, MD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Add to this mix the fact that chickens lit, H5N1. This book paints a global picture of how the mild bird flu in poultry developed into a devastating disaster in human and details how we prepare, … 2/ Modern, huge, overcrowded, filthy, dark, highly-medicated food-animal environments have made this exponentially worse. Third, try to develop larger. It's so well researched and documented that most of the information has no time-stamp on it. Pandemic or fizzle?
Or worse? If bird flu and a human virus interact, pigs might provide the breeding ground for a lethal strain of H5N1 that can be easily transmitted from pigs to people and then from person to person. Something went wrong.
From 1918 he transitions seamlessly to the research laboratories of today.
Or a fizzle like Swine Flu in President Gerald Ford's administration? In just two short years, an estimated 50 to 100 million people perished as World War I raged on. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe... Read Full Overview, Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 13 years ago, BIRD FLU: A VIRUS OF OUR OWN HATCHING opens not with H5N1, the modern day "bird flu virus" which has the potential to mutate into the deadliest pandemic that the world has ever seen, but with H1N1, the influenza virus responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic.
It goes to into great detail about bird flu and the potential for the next Pandemic.
Compare that to H5N1, which thus far has killed 55% of those infected - and one must wonder why the possibility of bird flu pandemic is confined to occasional media reports that are quickly dwarfed by the latest Hollywood gossip.
Well, it took me long enough, but I’ve finally read and reviewed Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, by Michael Greger (2006).The review is posted on Amazon, but in the spirit of supporting independent publishing, if you decide to buy a copy, hop on over to Lantern Books to make your purchase. There was a problem loading your book clubs.
Its good but after you read it be prepared to give that raw chicken a second look before you buy it. Please try again. I.
"The book reads like a detective novel, but its value will be equipping readers to protect themselves from the flu.... Bird Flu will be a fine addition to the office library as we continue to plan a national response to a possible avian influenza pandemic." Will this version of Avian Flu be a killer as bad as the great Pandemic Flu of 1918 (also an avian flu)?
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Also, the virus has been shown to infect pigs. Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP Author of The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner and The Bird Flu Manual. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. And, if the author is correct, humans have done this to themselves.
One plus at the present is that H5N1 does not pass from one human to another easily.
As a spiritual person I believe that the way we have turned food animals into genetically modified Frankenstein creatures who live lives of intense confinement, torture and abuse is asking for karmic retribution. Unable to add item to List.
This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Purple blood blisters appeared on their skin. 4/If animal agriculture continues at the pace we've witnessed so far, there's a possibility of eventually creating a virus that infects a high% of the world's population, & kills a high% of those infected. What to do about the threat? With eloquence and precision, Dr. Greger pulls apart and then weaves together the mix of natural and manmade threads that comprise the H5N1 tapestry. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
It also can help people understand the urgency of a possible avian flu pandemic as it now exists, and how it could affect the health and well-being of people everywhere."
Click here to watch a video of the book. [...] [The Chief of the Medical Services, Major Walter V. Brem] wrote that `often blood was seen to gush from a patient's nose and mouth.' Although "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching" is harrowing in its implications, it is nonetheless hopeful. It also allows him to discuss the origins of a number of major diseases. This is bad news, since pigs can also be infected by human viruses. Read this a while ago and still remember quite a bit of it - its that eye opening with regard to our food sources. Ominously, I received a guide from the government on how to prepare for a flu pandemic as I read this book.
--Colonel George W. Korch, Jr., Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, "A brilliant and captivating book, meticulously researched, beautifully and engagingly written with wit and grace, and argued with relentless logic.
This book has been around a long time now, but it's so worth reading!
In his new book, “How to Survive a ... it’s never a matter of if, but when,” Greger writes.
Please try again. But Dr Greger advocates changing the way chickens are “farmed” to prevent another outbreak. Once a basic understanding of viruses has been established, Dr. Greger addresses modern animal agriculture, specifically, how it's especially conducive to the transmission and evolution of avian influenza.
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