Avian Influenza
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Author(s): D. Swayne (Ed)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9780813820477
Format: hardback
605pp
Price: £75.00
Review Date: 09 June 2008
Review: The Editor has over 20 years of experience of studying avian influenza, and he leads the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, US. In this book he has gathered together an internationally recognized group of contributors while he has personally contributed to a quarter of the 25 chapters. The Editor points out that the book emphasizes epidemiology and biology to control strategies and their components to public health, educational, trade and economic concerns. Unlike many other diseases, avian influenza has shown distinct outbreaks or epidemics, each of which is unique and a rich source of information. The text brings together over a century of knowledge and experience of the disease.