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The dread plague and the cow killers : the politics of animal disease in Mexico and the world
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ISBN: 1108844480 110895135X 1108952615 1108952917 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was unprecedented in size. Despite daunting obstacles and entrenched opposition, it successfully eradicated the virus in Mexico, and reshaped policies, institutions, and knowledge around the world. Using untapped sources from local, national, and international archives, Thomas Rath provides a comprehensive history of this campaign, the forces that shaped it - from presidents to peasants, scientists to journalists, pistoleros to priests, mountains to mules - and the complicated legacy it left. More broadly, it uses the campaign to explore the formation of the Mexican state, changing ideas of development and security, and the history of human-animal relations.

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
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ISBN: 1280305223 9786610305223 3540271090 354022419X 3642061230 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The chapters in this volume provide an account of the present knowledge and understanding of Foot and Mouth disease virus pathogenesis and global epidemiology, the detailed structure of the virus itself and the properties of its RNA genome. Also considered are the immune response of the host and the state of the art in vaccine production, and the nature of virus evolution. It is clear that in all these areas there is still much more to learn about this fascinating virus. Because of its highly contagious nature research work on FMDV is restricted to a small number of laboratories worldwide that have adequate containment facilities. Despite this restriction, the recent progress in research on FMDV which is described in this volume has provided a remarkable level of understanding of this unique virus.


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Foot and mouth disease : new values, innovative research agendas and policies
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ISBN: 9076998272 9086865305 Year: 2004 Publisher: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers,


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Developing predictive tools for prevention of foot-and-mouth disease ... annual report.
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ISSN: 23728000 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

Emerging animal diseases
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ISBN: 0309084687 9786613527400 1280123540 0309502519 9780309502511 9780309084680 0309090393 9780309090391 0305084687 0309169208 9780309169202 9781280123542 6613527408 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press

Don't worry, it's safe to eat
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ISBN: 1417522402 1136567852 1280475854 9786610475858 1849771030 6000002645 9781849771030 9781417522408 9781136567841 1136567844 9781853839320 1853839329 9781136567803 9781136567858 9781138002128 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Sterling, VA Earthscan Publications

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An investigation of science, politics and our food production system, this text exposes the bogus science, political interference and flawed policies that threaten our food supply. The author tells the story of BSE, revealing how top scientists have been muzzled and how the epidemic continues. Then, against a backdrop of burning cows, Andrew Rowell exposes how trade and macro-economic policies overruled good science in the foot and mouth catastrophe. He also opens the black box of the so-called GM revolution to expose the myth behind the marketing. In tracing how critics are silenced in the bo

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