The monster at our door - Mike Davis

An urgent and extraordinarily frightening reconstruction of scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making. Exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast food industries, abetted by corrupt governments,in creating the ecological conditions for an emergent plague that could repeat the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed five per cent of the world population in 1918, Davis creates a rousing and terrifying call to arms before H5N1 becomes another landmark disaster in modern history. Passionate, verve-filled and utterly urgent.