TY - BOOK ID - 78491708 TI - Arresting contagion AU - Olmstead, Alan L AU - Rhode, Paul Webb PY - 2015 SN - 0674967224 0674736044 9780674736047 9780674728776 0674728777 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts DB - UniCat KW - Communicable diseases in animals KW - Livestock KW - Animals KW - Animal health. KW - Food KW - Domestic animals KW - Health KW - Veterinary physiology KW - Health behavior in animals KW - Veterinary medicine KW - Animal kingdom KW - Beasts KW - Fauna KW - Native animals KW - Native fauna KW - Wild animals KW - Wildlife KW - Organisms KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Zoology KW - Animal husbandry KW - Farm animals KW - Live stock KW - Stock (Animals) KW - Stock and stock-breeding KW - Agriculture KW - Animal culture KW - Animal industry KW - Food animals KW - Herders KW - Range management KW - Rangelands KW - Epizootic diseases KW - Microbial diseases in animals KW - Veterinary epidemiology KW - Veterinary microbiology KW - Prevention. KW - Diseases KW - Safety measures. KW - Communicable Diseases KW - Animal Diseases KW - Disease Transmission, Infectious KW - Livestock. KW - Health Policy KW - Maladies infectieuses KW - Animaux KW - Bétail KW - veterinary. KW - prevention and control. KW - history. KW - prevention & control. KW - Chez les animaux. KW - Prévention. KW - Maladies KW - Histoire. KW - Maladies. KW - United States. KW - États-Unis. KW - veterinary KW - prevention & control KW - United States KW - Communicable Disease Control. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491708 AB - Over sixty percent of all infectious human diseases, including tuberculosis, influenza, cholera, and hundreds more, are shared with other vertebrate animals. Arresting Contagion tells the story of how early efforts to combat livestock infections turned the United States from a disease-prone nation into a world leader in controlling communicable diseases. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode show that many innovations devised in the fight against animal diseases, ranging from border control and food inspection to drug regulations and the creation of federal research labs, provided the foundation for modern food safety programs and remain at the heart of U.S. public health policy. America's first concerted effort to control livestock diseases dates to the founding of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) in 1884. Because the BAI represented a milestone in federal regulation of commerce and industry, the agency encountered major jurisdictional and constitutional obstacles. Nevertheless, it proved effective in halting the spread of diseases, counting among its early breakthroughs the discovery of Salmonella and advances in the understanding of vector-borne diseases. By the 1940s, government policies had eliminated several major animal diseases, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and establishing a model for eradication that would be used around the world. Although scientific advances played a key role, government interventions did as well. Today, a dominant economic ideology frowns on government regulation of the economy, but the authors argue that in this case it was an essential force for good. ER -