The First Line of Defense: Inventing the Infrastructure to Combat Animal Diseases
研究了美国畜牧业疾病控制对人类健康的巨大溢出效应,回顾了动物工业局在19世纪末至20世纪初的成功与失败,特别是对旋毛虫病的应对不力。
Control of livestock disease had large spillover effects on human health. By 1900 the United States was a leader in livestock disease control, thanks to the efforts of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Its first chief, Daniel Salmon, established a model that would be copied around the world in campaigns against human and animal diseases. For the most part, the Progressive Era regulations to advance livestock health and food safety were spectacular successes. The bureau's main blunder was its failure to deal effectively with trichinosis, which was far more widespread than generally believed.