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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching ReviewDr. Greger succeeds where virtually everyone else misses the mark on avian influenza and the coming pandemic -- bringing together the historical, medical, ecological, agricultural, viral, and economic factors that have contributed to the "hatching" of this new disease threat. The human choices and decisions that are evident at every turn in the history of H5N1 call to mind the Titanic: 1500 people drowned not solely because the ship hit an iceberg, but because of decisions about the design of the decks and the underwater compartments, reflecting priorities that had consequences for people's lives. The iceberg exposed those decisions for historic reflection. Blaming disasters on "nature" gets us off the hook every time.
The same attitude prevails in the official rhetoric about avian viruses and the pandemic that lies "dead ahead." 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).
With eloquence and precision, Dr. Greger pulls apart and then weaves together the mix of natural and manmade threads that comprise the H5N1 tapestry. Citing data from hundreds of scientific and lay sources within multiple disciplines, he overcomes the compartmentalization that characterizes almost all other approaches to analyzing the origins and characteristics of the virus itself, without diluting the rigor of scientific analysis.
Dr Greger examines the totality of variables that engender and accelerate ongoing genetic mutations within H5N1. He takes us step by step through the process whereby a harmless waterborne duck virus has become a deadly airborne chicken killer that now threatens all of humanity. 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.
It is time to abandon the fiction that the emergence of such an unprecedented disease threat to humanity is entirely a "natural" phenomenon just doing its evolutionary "thing." One can only hope that this book will finally enable us to stop talking about the inevitable pandemic as if it has nothing to do with the drastic changes in food production methods worldwide over the last 15-20 years.
The book is brilliantly organized, meticulously documented, and provides absolutely essential background and depth for anyone who wants to know more than the superficial rhetoric currently available to the public. The scientific community would be well advised to read this book, as well, in order to acquire a more interdisciplinary and contextual perspective appropriate for the era of globalization.
Although "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching" is harrowing in its implications, it is nonetheless hopeful. As Dr. Greger points out, only when we grasp the extent to which our factory farming methods provide the "host density" without which H5N1 would not be threatening us, will we be capable of considering our options for the post-pandemic future. In the meantime, we are all going to pay the price for the choices that have been made.
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