@article{717833,
      recid = {717833},
      author = {MacPhail, Theresa,},
      title = {The viral network : a pathography of the H1N1 influenza  pandemic /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) :},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717833},
}