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It is almost impossible to find a plague-related news item today that is not accompanied by an image of a rat. The best-known carriers of zoonotic diseases, rats are so closely identified with plague that research articles about the role of other mammals in the spread or maintenance of the dise...
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oapen-20.500.12657-638612023-07-12T03:41:44Z Chapter 4 The Global War Against the Rat Lynteris, Christos Animals; rats; vermin; zoonotic diseases bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFZ Animals & society It is almost impossible to find a plague-related news item today that is not accompanied by an image of a rat. The best-known carriers of zoonotic diseases, rats are so closely identified with plague that research articles about the role of other mammals in the spread or maintenance of the disease are met with enthusiasm in the media—and in some cases mistakenly hailed as exonerating rats from the spread of plague. This tautology between rat and plague is articulated in a context of framing an expanding range of nonhuman animals as hosts or vectors of infectious diseases such as influenza, Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19 2023-07-11T11:33:59Z 2023-07-11T11:33:59Z 2022 chapter 9780262544221 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63861 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK592788.pdf The MIT Press Visual Plague 10.7551/mitpress/14413.003.0009 10.7551/mitpress/14413.003.0009 f49dea23-efb1-407d-8ac0-6ed2b5cb4b74 a45b35f5-a9a5-4216-94cc-3405dffb84b6 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9780262544221 Wellcome 96 Cambridge Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access |
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It is almost impossible to find a plague-related
news item today that is not
accompanied by an image of a rat. The best-known
carriers of zoonotic
diseases, rats are so closely identified with plague that research articles about
the role of other mammals in the spread or maintenance of the disease are
met with enthusiasm in the media—and
in some cases mistakenly hailed as
exonerating rats from the spread of plague. This tautology between rat and
plague is articulated in a context of framing an expanding range of nonhuman
animals as hosts or vectors of infectious diseases such as influenza,
Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19 |
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