Table of Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

I. Storm Gathering

1. 1918

• a. “Humanity has but three…
• b. Purple Death
• c. “[A] dead man has no substance…
• d. “They died in heaps…
• e. “This is a detective story…
• f. Resurrection

2. Master of Metamorphosis

• a. Tiny Terrorists
• b. “A hen is only an egg's way…
• c. Something in the Air
• d. Makings of a Killer
• e. “But what gave this pestilence…
• f. “There is nothing permanent…
• g. Viral Sex

3. H5N1

• a. Hong Kong, 1997
• b. Fowl Plague
• c. Close Call
• d. “Next to a battle lost…
• e. What Happens to a Pandemic…
• f. Year of the Rooster

4. Playing Chicken

• a. “Where chicken soup used to cure…
• b. Cooking the Crap Out of It
• c. Handle with Care
• d. Soft-Boiled Truth
• e. Tastes Like Chicken

5. Worse Than 1918?

• a. Higher Human Learning
• b. Mano-a-Mano
• c. No Shot
• d. Bitter Pill
• e. Profit Motive
• f. Population Bust
• g. “Get rid of the ‘if.’…

6. When, Not If

• a. “It is coming.”
• b. Two Minutes to Midnight
• c. Flu Year’s Eve
• d. Catching the Flu
• e. Boots on the Ground

II. When Animal Viruses Attack

1. The Third Age

• a. Emerging Infectious Disease
• b. Their Bugs Are Worse…
• c. “Most and probably all…
• d. “Wherever the European has trod…
• e. The Plague Years

2. Man Made

• a. AIDS: A Clear-Cut Disaster
• b. Aggressive Symbiosis
• c. Wild Tastes
• d. Shipping Fever
• e. America’s Soft Underbelly
• f. Pet Peeves
• g. Pigs Barking Blood

3. Livestock Revolution

• a. Breeding Grounds
• b. Back to the Dark Ages
• c. Stomaching Emerging Disease
• d. Offal Truth
• e. Big Mac Attack
• f. Animal Bugs Forced to Join…
• g. Last Great Plague

4. Tracing the Flight Path

• a. Pandora’s Pond
• b. Hog Ties
• c. Viral Swap Meets
• d. Gambling with Our Lives?
• e. Stopping Traffic

5. One Flu Over the Chicken’s Nest

• a. Acute Life Strategy
• b. “In our efforts to streamline…
• c. Chicken Surprise
• d. Out of the Trenches
• e. A Chicken in Every Pot
• f. “You have to say…

6. Coming Home to Roost

• a. Overcrowded
• b. Stressful
• c. Filthy
• d. Lack of Sunlight
• e. Bred to Be Sick
• f. Monoculture
• g. Acquired Immunodeficiency…

7. Guarding the Henhouse

• a. Chicken Run
• b. Wishful Thinking
• c. Made in the USA

III. Pandemic Preparedness

1. Cooping Up Bird Flu

• a. Taming of the Flu
• b. Thai Curry Favor with Poultry…
• c. “We have as much chance…

2. Race Against Time

• a. “He who desires, but acts not…
• b. Chicken Little Gets the Flu
• c. Our Best Shot

3. Tamiflu

• a. “Access to medicines…
• b. Patent Nonsense
• c. End of the Line
• d. “The success or failure…
• e. Don't Need a Hurricane to Know…

IV. Surviving the Pandemic

1. Don’t Wing It

• a. The A List
• b. Stretching the Stockpile
• c. Get It Now While Supplies Last
• d. Crash Course

2. Our Health in Our Hands

• a. Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
• b. Coughs and Sneezes…
• c. Washing Your Hands of the Flu
• d. There’s the Rub
• e. Masking Our Ignorance

3. Be Prepared

• a. Home Health Aid
• b. Collateral Damage
• c. Corpse Management
• d. Bird Flu Vultures Lining Up
• e. “We have learned very little…
• f. “In the absence of a pandemic…

V. Preventing Future Pandemics

1. Tinderbox

• a. Trojan Duck
• b. One Stray Spark
• c. Biosafety Level Zero
• d. Snowflakes to an Avalanche
• e. Worst of Both Worlds

2. Reining in the Pale Horse

• a. “Extreme remedies…
• b. “The modern world…
• c. “The single biggest threat…
• d. In a Flap
• e. The Price We Pay

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