LEADER 03713oam 2200541z 450 001 9910956720703321 005 20240508232944.0 010 $a9781988531410$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a1988531411$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9781988531403$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a1988531403$b(electronic bk.) 035 $a(CKB)4100000007591217 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5651791 035 $a(Perlego)1439509 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007591217 100 $a20190630d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFlu hunter $eunlocking the secrets of a virus /$fRobert G. Webster 210 1$aDunedin, New Zealand :$cOtago University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (some color), color maps 311 08$a9781988531311 311 08$aPrint version: Webster, Robert G., 1932- Flu hunber. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2018 1988531314 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword / by Lance Jennings -- Emergence of the monster: Spanish influenza, 1918 -- The start of influenza research -- From seabirds in Australlia to Tamiflu -- The search moves to wild ducks in Canada -- Delaware Bay: the right place at the right time -- Proving interspecies transmission -- Virologists visit China -- Hong Kong hotbed: live bird markets and pig processing -- Searching the world, 1975-95 -- The smoking gun -- Bird flu: the rise and spread of H5N1 -- The first pandemic of the 21st century -- SARS, and a second bird flu outbreak -- Digging for answers on the 1918 Spanish influenza -- Resurrecting the 1918 Spanish influenza -- Opening Pandora's Box -- Looking to the future: are we better prepared. 330 $a"When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality. Enormous social disruption and substantial economic cost can result. The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic was undoubtedly the most devastating influenza pandemic to date, and it has been Dr Robert Webster's life's work to figure out how and why. In so doing he has made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the evolution of influenza viruses and how to control them. A century on, Flu Hunter is a gripping account of the tenacious scientific detective work involved in revealing the secrets of this killer virus. Dubbed `Flu Hunter' by Smithsonian Magazine in 2006, Dr Webster began his research in the early 1960s with the insight that the natural ecology of most influenza viruses is among wild aquatic birds. Painstaking tracking and testing of thousands of birds eventually led him and the other scientists involved to establish a link between these bird virus `reservoirs' and human influenza pandemics. Some of this fascinating scientific work involved exhuming bodies of Spanish flu victims from the Arctic permafrost in a search for tissue samples containing genetic material from the virus" --Publisher. 606 $aInfluenza$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEpidemics$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAvian influenza 606 $aDisasters 606 $aInfluenza$xEpidemiology 615 0$aInfluenza$xHistory 615 0$aEpidemics$xHistory 615 0$aAvian influenza. 615 0$aDisasters. 615 0$aInfluenza$xEpidemiology. 676 $a616.203019 700 $aWebster$b Robert G.$f1932-$01672374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956720703321 996 $aFlu hunter$94361926 997 $aUNINA