Managing Insects and Mites With Spray Oils (Publication)

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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into coverups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.

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Not Just Another Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-09-03

This book was the BEST BOOK Ive ever read!!! It makes you wonder what else has been kept from the public. It was done with so much reseach and lacks no mystery but is very truthful. It is wonderful. I think it should be a must read for all high school literture classes!!!!!Great Job ED!

Very Revealing.......2007-08-29

Having lived, and worked, in downtown New Orleans, I was most intriqued by this book. The "New Orleans culture" comes thru loud and clear! This book is thoroughly referenced and very believable. I would recommend it to any discernible student of modern history. Do not read this book thinking you will read another Kennedy assasination theory. It is not. It is much more. If you remember the scourge of polio, read this book

Conspiracy Theory, New Orleans Style.......2007-08-23

Having lived in the New Orleans metro area for almost twenty years, author Edward T. Haslam's expose, "Dr. Mary's Monkey," linking the murder of Dr. Mary Sherman in 1964 to the Kennedy Assassination and to a world-wide health epidemic triggered by cancer- causing viruses effecting the populace today, puts a lot of extra spice in the otherwise already piquant political roux that substantiates the eclectic yet sometimes covert gumbo that differentiates this sultry city from other metropolises in the United States. Not only does Haslam provide residents and other aficionados of this area with a thrilling history of dot-connecting events that literally traverses from one end of St. Charles Avenue to the other, he does so compellingly in simple colloquial language that facilitates his theory involving a cover-up of far-right wing politics gone very wrong.

Haslam espouses his New Orleans charm frequently in an engaging manner that makes him extremely readable; his first chapters tell of his remembrances from childhood of primate virus research first brought to his attention by his father, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Tulane University. Later as an attendee of the prestigious Jesuit High School, fellow students (the sons of other New Orleans leaders) pique his curiosity further by providing otherwise unpublished information about a claim made by then district attorney Jim Garrison that connected the recent Kennedy assassination with an underground medical laboratory which was inducing cancer in mice by injecting them with monkey viruses.

Rather than spoil Haslam's smooth disclosure of this explosive material involving the prominent Dr. Alton Ochsner, founder of New Orleans Ochsner Clinic and Hospital, the polio vaccine (developed by growing polio viruses in monkey kidneys), a plot to develop a biological weapon meant to stamp out the spread of communism in Cuba and the rest of the Latin American world, the involvement of Lee Harvey Oswald, the Mafia and the notorious David Ferrie and the scheme to obscure the facts regarding the death of cancer-researcher Dr. Mary Sherman, I will focus on Haslam's ability to tell a good story. He devotes a chapter to each of the key figures in his theory, concluding with some well-thought out speculation regarding the rise in cancer in the past fifteen years.

If the book has one fault, it is that although Haslam provides the reader with the information that he has accumulated and well-documented, as in any other conspiracy theory, he cannot verify all of his information. The appearance of three Judyth Vary Bakers subtracts from some of Haslam's plausibility, but only if you don't buy into his theory that as he collected information, the puppeteers orchestrating the concealment of the facts delivered a few red herrings, the stink of which attempted to jar him off the right track.

Nevertheless, "Dr. Mary's Monkey" scares the reader silly with its implications about how powerful men can bend and twist reality as we perceive it while perilously changing the future of an entire generation. On the higher philosophical plane of right versus wrong, it speaks poorly of our American culture and what can and will be done in the shadow of flag-waving freedom.

Bottom line: While Edward T. Haslam's "Dr. Mary's Monkey" suggests scenarios that may or may not be fully substantiated at this time, the author compiles an interesting and totally absorbing page-turner that screams for local, if not national attention. Wisely interspersed with maps, newspaper articles and photographs, Haslam presents his theory in a colorful manner which bespeaks his New Orleans charming background. Recommended.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
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Intense Reading - Thought Provoking To The Extreme.......2007-08-06

Author does an "excellent" job of transitioning from one topic/idea to another.

This book is "a history lesson" not taught in High School/College courses.

This is reporting at it's best!

If you're planning to read this book on your next airline flight - it better be a "long" flight!

Hmmmm........2007-07-18

I was so excited about getting this book and started reading it as soon as I get it out of the box. However about 2/3s of the was through I started realizing that so much of it was circumstancial evidence and hearsay.Then after reading several paragraph about Lee Oswald driving Judyth Vary Baker around New Orleans (by the way what ever happened to the other Judyth Vary Baker) in his Uncle's car and also being a runner (driver) for his Uncle and members of the mob a big cloud of doubt started to descend over the whole story. Every book I have read that mentions Lee Oswald and driving states he did not know how to drive and had never gotten a license.
I agree there are a lot of seeming sound facts in the book but I am just not sure now about how they are put together. Also, it seems a lot of the former "Bad Guys" now have excuses for their actions.

Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?

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Fishy
Nice theory, too bad the sequence analyses of viral samples prove it wrong
How to easily prove the critics wrong
If you want to know why the goverment does this read on...
Not a conspiracy at all

Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?
Leonard G. Horowitz
Manufacturer: Tetrahedron
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ASIN: 0923550127

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Fishy.......2007-01-14

I didn't like this book. For one thing, if it were non-fiction, then why all the dialogue between him and his wife, which was more or less fiction, since who could remember that kind of detail all that time?

For another, there were significant omissions, like the biowarfare lab on Plum Island in New York, lyme disease, West Nile, mycoplasma, Royal Rife, Morgellon's, and a host of others. Not to mention the more convincing evidence that AIDS is from swine not cattle.

He also totally mis-understood milieu interior, which doesn't refer to political climate but the health of the host, affecting whether or not he will catch any illness he is exposed to, which was huge in the history of vaccine development.

Finally there is very convincing evidence that prion disease is environmental - copper deficiency in the face of manganese poisoning, which has been known since Andre Voisin wrote "Soil, Grass, and Cancer".

Nice theory, too bad the sequence analyses of viral samples prove it wrong.......2005-11-23

Please read the science on this subject before becoming a "true believer" in this theory. Detailed study of the sequences of simian immunodeficiency viruses from many species of monkeys and chimps, compared to the sequences of viral samples from humans with HIV-1 or HIV-2 clearly show that Horowitz's theory is not consistent with the data. When in doubt I suggest going with the facts not speculation.

When a theory does not match the data - move on.

A good start point to enter the scientific literature is a review article "AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications", Hahn BH, Shaw GM, De Cock KM, Sharp PM, published in Science, 28 January 2000, Vol 287:607-614. Just go to the National Library of Medicine website at www.pubmed.gov and enter Hahn BH, Shaw GM, De Cock KM, Sharp PM then click on related articles to access the scientific literature.

How to easily prove the critics wrong.......2005-07-11

Interestingly, the bad reviewers of this book have only convinced me of its accuracy. None of their criticisms strike me as being sound. A few of them criticize the book for scaring people, to which I would say that I only wish back in 1932, during my lifetime, someone would have, in a similar fashion, scared people about the Tuskegee Experiment. I also wish back in the 1700s someone would have scared the native americans before the British deliberately distributed smallpox infected blankets to them, killing off half of the tribes!

As to the argument that man did not know how to create the ebola virus in the 50s, the critics are not appropriately answering the scenarios raised by Dr. Horowitz. Specifically, Dr, Horowitz spends a great deal of time discussing the possiblities of:

1) Careless "professionals" allowing contamination from existing virus samples.

2) An existing virus, from one host, from which another host becomes infected, with the result being that the virus mutates in the new host to a variation of the original virus, a mutated virus for which not only can we not create, we also don't have a cure for (as in the case of AIDS).

3) A criminally misguided government official, someone such as, say, a Henry Kissinger who we know touted the the benefits of population control, who might have sent signals to outfits such as the CIA whose job it is to be paranoid to the extreme and who could obtain funding for top secret virus research for which the "experts" writing reviews here would know none of the details of what man was, or was not, capable of creating in a lab.

This is a must read for any sane person who recognizes the foolishness of sticking your head in the sand to avoid seeing the lion charging at your butt.

If you want to know why the goverment does this read on..........2004-06-16

I applaud the courage of Leonard Horowitz in exposing the truth about what the government has been up to for a long time. As a researcher I have uncovered many things that are almost too ugly to be believed. There are many out there wondering why anyone inside the government or out would do such hideous things. I strongly recommend the readers of this review to read the book "Bringers of the Dawn" by Barbara Marciniak. This book may also be hard to believe but the pieces of the puzzle will come together when you read this book. But hang on to your seats. If you also purchase the book "Power vs. Force" by Dr. David Hawkins, you will find a technique that will show you how to prove or disprove anything in either of the above books (or anything else for that matter). The answers are out there. We just have to keep searching.

Not a conspiracy at all.......2003-09-02

In fact, the evidence is out there and you just need to look for it and put it all together......Horowitz has done all the hard work for you making this reading hard to put down even for a minute.
Not surprised at all at WHO involvement and coverups...and pretty much sits with the Global 2000 agenda signed off by Vance and Co....

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Infectious diseases are an ever present threat to humans. In recent years, the threat of these emerging viruses has been greater than ever before in human history, due in large part to global travel by larger numbers of people, and to a lesser extent to disruptions in the interface between developed and undeveloped areas. The emergence of new deadly viruses in human populations during recent decades has confirmed this risk. They remain the third leading cause of deaths in the US and the second world-wide.

Emerging Viruses in Human Populations provides a comprehensive review of viruses that are emerging or that threaten to emerge among human populations in the twenty-first century. It discusses the apprehension over emerging viruses that has intensified due to concerns about bioterrorism.

* Presents the history of emerging viruses
* Includes chapters on SARS, Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses, West Nile Virus, Monkeypox Virus, Hantavirus, Nipah Virus and Hendra Virus, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, Dengue and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
* Discusses surveillance for newly emerging diseases

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rare collection of experts in their respective fields
Very fascinating, have referred others to read as well.

Emerging Viruses

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195074440

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New epidemics such as AIDS and "mad cow" disease have dramatized the need to explore the factors underlying rapid viral evolution and emerging viruses. This comprehensive volume is the first to describe this multifaceted new field. It places viral evolution and emergence in a historical context, describes the interaction of viruses with hosts, and details the advances in molecular biology and epidemiology that have provided the tools necessary to track developing viral epidemics and to detect new viruses far more successfully than could be done in the recent past. This unique book also lucidly details case histories and offers practical suggestions for the prevention of future epidemics. The contributors are leading authorities in their disciplines, and were selected both for their expert knowledge and for their ability to define and elucidate the fundamental issues. The book is highly accessible and has been written for a wide audience that includes virologists, public health authorities, medical anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, infectious disease specialists, and social scientists interested in medical and helath issues.

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rare collection of experts in their respective fields.......2000-08-04

This book presents different aspects of epidemiology, and virology in each of the chapters. The author and many contributors are THE best people in their field and this book offers a rare opportunity in that their comments are in one easily readable volume. I have spent much time looking for the same information presented here, my research always revealed that the contributors to this volume are the prominent figures for their respective chapters. An excellent book, great value for money

Very fascinating, have referred others to read as well........1999-11-19

I finished reading this fascinating book, and I have highly recommend this book to some of my collegues in the biotech industry. Gives incredible insight for which many people would find interesting and thought provoking. Also, I would someday like to contact the author and compliment him and maybe ask one or two questions about the book.

The Invisible Invaders: The Story of the Emerging Age of Viruses

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Another great beginner book about viruses and their impact.
A DeKruif type of style

The Invisible Invaders: The Story of the Emerging Age of Viruses
Peter Radetsky
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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Binding: Hardcover

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Another great beginner book about viruses and their impact........2000-06-14

I am sorry to see that this book is out of print. I highly recommend it, as it isn't that old (1991,1994) and much of it is still valid today. Radetsky did fantastic job with the history of viral research, on the mainly men who worked on finding these invisible 'monsters' who can wreck such havoc on the human race. The book reads quickly and well, and it follows a chronological pattern that allows the reader to understand what had to happen before to allow certain discoveries to occur. I would recommend that curious readers check for this book in a local university library, and that the publishers will rethink updating this book for the many who I am sure are interested in reading this type of nonfiction. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh

A DeKruif type of style.......2000-01-06

I really loved this book. I found it interesting because it did not dumb down information. The author clearly had an understanding of the audience it was geared for, and did not give the reader the feeling that they were stupid. I would reccommend this book to anyone who is interested in the scientific historical look at viruses.

The Biology of Emerging Viruses (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

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The Biology of Emerging Viruses (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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ASIN: 1573316903

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This volume reports on a meeting, co-sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology and the Vietnam Association for Microbiology, which provided a common platform for Vietnamese scientists and ASM international members to discuss emerging viral infectious diseases with special emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member.

A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses

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A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
Robin Marantz Henig
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KTB0U0

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A non-scientists view of emerging viruses
Good overview of emerging viruses, but a bit dated
Not well written but interesting
Lovely book on a fascinating topic
a must-read on what viruses are and how they work

A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
Robin Henig
Manufacturer: Bt Bound
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Binding: Library Binding

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Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic might be caused by any of a dozen viruses that were once confined to other species or territories but now place human beings at risk as we increasingly cross their boundaries.

Updated to include the latest research and developments, this fascinating and sometimes unsetting book sums up all that we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they spread, and how scientists are trying to outwit them. Interweaving theory and real-life medical drama, A Dancing Matrix is science reportage at its most suspenseful and informative.

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A non-scientists view of emerging viruses.......2004-01-12

As a regular science reader I found myself cringing at some of the 'facts' proposed by Ms.Henig. Several of them are more sterotype or rumour rather than fact. I agree with another reviewer who accuses the authour of cliche.

At one point she refers to disease as an "inconclusive negotiation for symbiosis, an over-stepping of the line by one side or the other, a biologic misinterpretation of borders."

All biology students should be wiping tears from their eyes at this point. Natural selection has no foresight. Viruses have evolved to survive (as have we). They are not attempting to live in peace and harmony with us anymore than we are trying to live in peace and harmony with them. If a virus can pass 1000 progeny to the next generation whilst being very virulent, or 100 progeny whilst being mildly virulent, it will evolve towards higher virulence.

There are some ok parts, but quite un-scientific and frustrating in parts.

Good overview of emerging viruses, but a bit dated.......2000-11-07

Overall I recommend this book, especially if you are just beginning to learn about virusus. A lot of specific details have changed since this book was published. For example, the chapter on AIDS, while being accurate in 1994, is now so out of date as to be somewhat offensive. However, the main point of the book, that humans are behaving in ways that greatly increase the risk of viral epidemics, is not at all dated. In fact, it is more relevant now than ever. Despite some details being out of date, the concepts presented in this book are accurate, and VERY, VERY important. However, if you are looking for specifics on emerging viruses, I would recommend reading a more current book. If you have a scientific background and want more details, I also recommend "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. Like this book, it has some inaccuracies, but I found it more interesting.

Not well written but interesting.......2000-04-21

The subject matter of this book sparkles though some mediocre writing. The book is not well organized and the author is fond of cliches such as "Professor Morse has a small office typical of college professors, crammed with books and old coffee mugs." Who cares! If the author had just focused on virulogy, it would have been better, but it is still an interesting read (though a bit dated now).

Lovely book on a fascinating topic.......1999-03-20

I really enjoyed this book! It tells gripping tales of real-life nightmares with energy, insight, and even charm. I also found it very well-informed and extremely clear. I knew almost nothing about this field before I picked up the book, and understood it easily. Henig is an outstanding science writer.

a must-read on what viruses are and how they work.......1999-03-17

I recently reread portions of this book -- the Primer on Viruses Chapter and the chapter on influenza -- to supplement my current reading of "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett. Henig's book is a must-read for any layperson (like me) trying to attain literacy in the important area of emerging viruses.

I disagree somewhat with MVERNON's assessment: "A good read for those with a knowledge of the history of viruses but not their pure scientific background, but would leave those without, pondering far too much." I had no difficulty with this book, although of course it's not the same as reading a novel. Previous to reading it, I had read "The Selfish Gene," but nothing else relevant, so my background was very limited. The Primer may take a few readings, but it's worth it when the pieces -- DNA, RNA, proteins, genes, retroviruses, antigens and antibodies -- finally come into focus.

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Emerging Viruses
S.S. Morse
Manufacturer: Oxford, 1993
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H241Z6

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Emerging Viruses and Vaccinations

Manufacturer: Tetrahedron incorporated
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0923550178

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Could cancer research and genetic biotechnologyhave given rise to new viruses and the current and coming plagues? More frightening, could contaminated vaccines be spreading those germs and killing or injuring more people than they are saving?

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