Hepatitis E, the “Brexit Virus”
Pigs Might Fly
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 978-1-5275-2352-4
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Buch. Hardcover
2019
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 335 S.
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-5275-2352-4
Produktbeschreibung
This text explores the reasons for the major upswing in cases of HEV in humans in Europe, including the recent practice of using of HEV-contaminated pig serum in domesticated and farmed animal feed. Recent cases of HEV in the UK appear to have originated from pigs in Continental Europe. The reasons for this are uncertain, but HEV has been dubbed by the international press as the ‘Brexit Virus’, perhaps an early leaving present from our friends in the EU.
Accessible to lay readers, the book contains elements of the medical art versus science debate and explores the Greek concept of philotimo. It is leavened by case histories and medical stories from a health service increasingly under pressure, and given historical, political and geographical context by examples of medical discoveries and self-experimentation from the past, including inevitable comparisons with the BSE crisis of the 1980s.
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