Book ID: CBB726411531

Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter (2020)

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Fearnley, Lyle (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

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 research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health scientists, state-employed veterinarians, and poultry farmers in Beijing and at Poyang Lake, Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about disease emergence inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health.

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Authors & Contributors
Honigsbaum, Mark
Lukáš Novotný
Valérie Tóthová
Věra Hellerová
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
M. Kemal Temel
Concepts
Pandemics
Influenza
Public health
Infectious diseases
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
16th century
Places
United States
China
Hong Kong
Istanbul (Turkey)
Bogotá (Colombia)
Sicily
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