| Description |
1 online resource (x, 465 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-446) and index. |
| Contents |
An enduring struggle -- Livestock disease environment and industry dynamics -- The battle to create the Bureau of Animal Industry -- The BAI in action: Establishing the area eradication model -- Bad blood: Deciphering Texas fever and confining its spread -- Contagions and crises: Foot-and-mouth disease -- The hog cholera puzzle: Controversy and discovery -- Trichinosis, trade, and food safety -- The benevolence of the butcher: The creation of federal meat inspection -- Bovine tuberculosis and the milk problem -- The eradication of Texas fever: Conflict and cooperation -- An impossible undertaking: Eradicating bovine tuberculosis -- Getting off the fix: Hog cholera eradication -- The mirror of the past. |
| Summary |
Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections--border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs--turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Animal Industry.
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United States. Bureau of Animal Industry. |
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Communicable diseases in animals -- United States -- Prevention.
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Communicable diseases in animals. |
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United States. |
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Livestock -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention.
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Livestock -- Diseases. |
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Animals -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention.
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Animals -- Diseases. |
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Communicable diseases in animals -- United States -- Prevention -- Decision making.
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Decision making. |
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Animal health.
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Animal health. |
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Food -- Safety measures.
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Food -- Safety measures. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rhode, Paul Webb, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Olmstead, Alan L. Arresting contagion. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 9780674728776 (DLC) 2014016723 (OCoLC)875999826 |
| ISBN |
0674736044 (electronic book) |
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9780674736047 (electronic book) |
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9780674728776 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0674728777 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/harvard.9780674736047 |
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