The politics of bird flu

The battle over viral samples and China’s role in global public health

Bibliographic Data

ID6084381
AuthorsTheresa Macphail
Year2009
Volume8
Issue3
Pages456-475
Publication date2009-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.8.3.07mac
OpenAlexW2018168118
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Avian influenza outbreaks in Southeast Asia have focused an intense global spotlight on the entire region, specifically on China’s role in an adequate global health network which would be able to prevent or to contain a severe outbreak of the disease. Highly-publicized and politically-charged battles over samples of the H5N1 virus, transparency, timely case reporting, and China’s contribution to and cooperation with global institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO), have all emphasized the mounting political positioning of public health prevention measures. The language surrounding viral samples of avian influenza highlights the increasingly overlapping worlds of politics and public health. In an age of popularized discourses about national biosecurities, risk, and the growing threat of globalized, contagious disease, bird flu has been recast as a focal point of contention, a figurative space where the stakes are high — both for public health systems and the political structures which support them

Bird flu · China · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 · Outbreak · Pathology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Virus · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Law · Virology

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