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Pandemonium
Andrew Nikiforuk
其他書名
Bird Flu Mad Cow And Other Biological Plagues Of The 21st Centry
出版Penguin Canada, 2008-08-05
主題Social Science / Disease & Health IssuesMedical / Infectious DiseasesHealth & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Contagious (incl. Pandemics)
ISBN01431813949780143181392
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6bk9dbngJEkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Our health and habitat are being threatened by biological invaders moving at unprecedented speed. Avian flu and its potential to cause a human pandemic is only one example of a worldwide menace unwittingly unleashed by the forces of globalization. The combination of unfettered free trade in living organisms, increased mobility, and urban crowding has created an increasingly volatile environment for the world’s 6.5 billion people. Nikiforuk argues that it shouldn’t take a pandemic to make us rethink the deadly pace of globalization and biological traffic. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Pandemonium is a clear-eyed guide to instability, unpredictability, and the hidden biological terrorist on our doorstep.