NP: Mike Davis

[Thomas Eckhardt]

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/110-mike-davis-on-covid-19-the-monster-is-at-the-door


Am 16.03.2020 um 15:26 schrieb Samir Sellami:
> „The bottom-line of the Shantou report was that several subtypes of
> influenza were traveling on the path toward pandemic potential. The
> industrialization of south China, perhaps, had altered crucial parameters
> in an already very complex ecological system, exponentially expanding the
> surface area of contact between avian and nonavian influenzas. As the rate
> of interspecies transmission of influenza accelerated, so too did the
> evolution of protopandemic strains. The Hong Kong research team had
> discovered, in other words, that contemporary influenza, like a postmodern
> novel, has no single narrative, but rather disparate storylines racing one
> another to dictate a bloody conclusion. “The H5N1 virus was in the process
> of adapting from aquatic to land-based poultry from the duck via the
> partially aquatic goose to the chicken,” while the H9N2 (and probably H6N1)
> were “adapting through a mechanism that took them to the quail and probably
> other minor land-based poultry such as the pheasant.” Alternately, “aquatic
> migratory or domestic birds could introduce a ‘genetically adaptable’ virus
> directly into land-based poultry. The intensification of the poultry
> industry through large-scale commercial operations in East Asia (and
> elsewhere) could facilitate this.“
> 
> (Mike Davis. The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, ch. 5)
> 
> Highly recommendable reading for the moment.
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