The Fear Virus
Author | : Ed Young |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2020-04-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781949784435 |
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Author | : Ed Young |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2020-04-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781949784435 |
Author | : Seth Mnookin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1439158657 |
A searing account of how vaccine opponents have used the media to spread their message of panic, despite no scientific evidence to support them.
Author | : Theresa MacPhail |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0801454883 |
In The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus's trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu.The Viral Network affords a rare look inside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as Hong Kong’s virology labs and Centre for Health Protection, during a pandemic. MacPhail looks at the day-to-day practices of virologists and epidemiologists to ask questions about the production of scientific knowledge, the construction of expertise, disease narratives, and the different "cultures" of public health in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and China. The chapters of the book move from the micro to the macro, from Hong Kong to Atlanta, from the lab to the WHO, from the pandemic past in 1918 to the future. The various historical, scientific, and cultural narratives about flu recounted in this book show how biological genes and cultural memes become interwoven in the stories we tell during a pandemic. Ultimately, MacPhail argues that the institution of global public health is as viral as the viruses it tracks, studies, and helps to contain or eradicate. The "global" is itself viral in nature.
Author | : W. Horace Carter |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780937866337 |
VIRUS OF FEAR by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist W. Horace Carter; a thrilling three-year autobiography of the young newspaper editor who vividly depicts the infamous resurrection & demise of the Carolinas Ku Klux Klan. The relentless crusade by his weekly paper led to conviction of 300 Klansmen. Many were imprisoned, a first in the U.S. CBS's Charles Kuralt says: "What it takes to defeat a murdering mob, sometimes, is one brave & decent man. I learned that in my youth from Horace Carter; he was the man. This is a fine memoir of a fighting editor." Fighting for the newspaper's survival & his life, the young editor crushed the violent, night-riding, lawless vigilantes. Scores of men & women were brutally whipped, branded & even had ears cut off. These floggings in the wee hours brought fear & even death. Defying death threats, newspaper boycotts & the advice of friends, Carter lambasted the Klan weekly with fiery front page editorials that eventually led to the KKK crumbling & the imprisonment of the Grand Dragon. Carter became the first weekly newspaper editor to win the Pulitzer for Meritorious Public Service. He was named "One of the Ten Most Outstanding Young Men in America" by the U.S. Jaycees.
Author | : Torsten Engelbrecht |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3752629789 |
"The book 'Virus Mania' has been written with the care of a master-craftsman, courageously evaluating the medical establishment, the corporate elites and the powerful government funding institutions." Wolfgang Weuffen, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology "The book 'Virus-Wahn' can be called the first work in which the errors, frauds and general misinformations being spread by official bodies about doubtful or non-virus infections are completely exposed." Gordon T. Stewart, MD, professor of public health and former WHO advisor - - - The population is terrified by reports of so-called COVID-19, measles, swine flu, SARS, BSE, AIDS or polio. However, the authors of "Virus Mania," investigative journalist Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr. Claus Köhnlein, MD, Dr. Samantha Bailey, MD, and Dr. Stefano Scoglio, BSc PhD, show that this fearmongering is unfounded and that virus mayhem ignores basic scientific facts: The existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven. The book "Virus Mania" will also outline how modern medicine uses dubious indirect lab tools claiming to prove the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The alleged viruses may be, in fact, also be seen as particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs. These particles are then "picked up" by antibody and PCR tests and mistakenly interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses. The authors analyze all real causes of the illnesses named COVID-19, avian flu, AIDS or Spanish flu, among them pharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, pollution, malnutrition and stress. To substantiate it, the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists, among them the Nobel laureates Kary Mullis, Barbara McClintock, Walter Gilbert and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet as well as microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner René Dubos, and it presents more than 1,400 solid scientific references. The topic of "Virus Mania" is of pivotal significance. Drug makers and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the "New York Times" and "Der Spiegel" are specifically analyzed).The enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of illnesses is falling by the wayside. For more reviews, see the older edition of "Virus Mania"
Author | : Michael B. A. Oldstone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0190056789 |
"Here, my previous edition of Viruses, Plagues, & History is updated to reflect both progress and disappointment since that publication. This edition describes newcomers to the range of human infections, specifically, plagues that play important roles in this 21st century. The first is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), an infection related to Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS was the first new-found plague of this century. Zika virus, which is similar to yellow fever virus in being transmitted by mosquitos, is another of the recent scourges. Zika appearing for the first time in the Americas is associated with birth defects and a paralytic condition in adults. Lastly, illness due to hepatitis viruses were observed prominently during the second World War initially associated with blood transfusions and vaccine inoculations. Since then, hepatitis virus infections have afflicted millions of individuals, in some leading to an acute fulminating liver disease or more often to a life-long persistent infection. A subset of those infected has developed liver cancer. However, in a triumph of medical treatments for infectious diseases, pharmaceuticals have been developed whose use virtually eliminates such maladies. For example, Hepatitis C virus infection has been eliminated from almost all (>97%) of its victims. This incredible result was the by-product of basic research in virology as well as cell and molecular biology during which intelligent drugs were designed to block events in the hepatitis virus life-cycle"--
Author | : Torsten Engelbrecht |
Publisher | : Trafford on Demand Pub |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781425114671 |
"This book has been written with the care of a master-craftsman, courageously evaluating the medical establishment, the corporate elites and the powerful government funding institutions. It is the result of expert knowledge and great attention to details. I edit standard medical textbooks, so I esteem the decades of efforts required to research and write a book like this." ---Wolfgang Weuffen, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Epidemiology "I have been so riveted reading this book that once, while standing on a platform of a major train station, I didn't even notice the Intercity train stop right in front of me and then go on without me. The authors are absolutely right in saying that the virus hunters and the media tend to push unfounded medical theories and sensationalized news based on the seesaw formula of hype and hope. Thereby, the CDC and the RKI snatch research funds worth billions of dollars, while the pharmaceutical industry generates giant profits, among them Tamiflu maker Roche. This book is an important contribution against such dangerous stultifications." --- Sievert Lorenzen, DSc, Professor of Zoology
Author | : Laura Dodsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-05-17 |
Genre | : COVID-19 (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9781780667201 |
Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so deeply embedded in government.
Author | : Graham Masterton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 178854501X |
THE MUST-READ HORROR NOVEL FROM THE MILLION-COPY-SELLING GRAHAM MASTERTON. A RASH OF MURDERS A young woman pours acid over her body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. Who or what has made ordinary Londoners commit such horrific acts? A DEADLY VIRUS DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting police are at a loss. With no obvious connection between the killings, they fear a virus. THE INFECTION IS SPREADING Something evil is stirring in the city. A supernatural force that infects its victims with a lust to murder. And Jerry and Jamila are powerless to stop it... 'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.' PETER JAMES
Author | : Roger Martin |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780465044115 |
Are you a heroic leader? Or are you a passive follower? Chances are you act like one or the other, and it's doing serious damage to your company, your customers, and your colleagues. The reason behind your harmful behavior? The fear that you'll be held responsible for any failures -which often makes failure the inevitable outcome. Management guru Roger Martin calls this fear of failure and the behavior it causes "The Responsibility Virus." With lively case studies based on real business practice, he shows how the Virus "infects" corporations and nonprofit organizations large and small. No message could be more urgent in today's business climate.Martin lays out a wholly original way of understanding group dynamics. His impassioned belief in the "power of one" will be required reading for any of us who think about how we function in organizations, from the boardroom to the mail room.