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Notes
1 . Hao Juikratoke quoted in Bryan Walsh, “A Sickness Spreads,” Time (Asia) (11 October 2004).
2 . Albert Camus, The Plague, translated by Stuart Gilbert (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948), p. 38.
3 . My account is a composite of “Human Transmission Possible,” and “Fear Grips Village in Kamphaeng Phet,”
Nation (Bangkok) (29 September 2004); ThailandChats.com , 3 October 2004; Noppawan Bunluesilp, “Fear Stalks
Village of Thai Bird Flu Victim,” Reuters (4 October 2004); Connie Levett, “Tens of Millions of Fowl Have Been
Slaughtered in the Effort to Eradicate the Disease,” Age (4 October 2004);Walsh, “Sickness Spreads” and Debora
MacKenzie, “Bird Flu Transmitted Between Humans in Thailand,” New Scientist (28 September 2004). In one account
the village name is given as Ban Mu 19.
4 . Kumnuan Ungchusak et al., “Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Avian Influenza A (H5N1),” New Eng-
land Journal of Medicine 352, no. 4 (27 January 2005): p. 336.
5 . Ibid., pp. 339-40.
6 . Pete Davies, The Devil's Flu (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), p. 75.
7 . The pioneering article is R. Slemons et al., “Type A Influenza Viruses Isolated from Wild Free-Flying Ducks in
California,” Avian Diseases 18 (1974): pp. 119-24.
8 . Cited in Edwin Kilbourne, Influenza (New York: Plenum Medical Book, 1987), p. 243.
9 . Toshihiro Ito and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, “Avian Influenza,” in Textbook of Influenza, edited by Karl Nicholson,
Robert Webster, and Alan Hay (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 126 and 129.
10 . Alan Hampson, “Influenza Virus Antigens and 'Antigenic Drift,' ” in Influenza, edited by C. Potter (Amster-
dam: Elsevier, 2003), p. 49.
11 . J. Taubenberger and A. Reid, “Archaevirology: Characterization of the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic
Virus,” in Emerging Pathogens, edited by Charles Greenblatt and Mark Spigelman (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003),
p. 189.
12 . Steven Frank, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2002), p.
205.
13 . John Holland, “Replication Error, Quasispecies Populations, and Extreme Evolution Rates of RNA Viruses,”
in Emerging Viruses, edited by Stephen Morse (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), p. 213.
14 . Robert Webster and William Bean Jr., “Evolution and Ecology of Influenza Viruses: Interspecies Transmis-
sion,” in Nicholson, Webster and Hay, Textbook, p. 117.
15 . Holland, “Replication Error,” pp. 207-9.
16 . G. Air, A. Gibbs, W. Laver, and R. Webster, “Evolutionary Changes in Influenza B Are Not Primarily
Governed by Antibody Selection,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 87, no. 10 (1990): pp. 3884-88.
17 . Dorothy Crawford, The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), p.
92.
18 . Taubenberger and Reid, “Archaevirology,” p. 196.
19 . Christopher Scholtissek, Virginia Hinshaw, and Christopher Olsen, “Influenza in Pigs and Their Role as the
Intermediate Host,” in Nicholson, Webster, and Hay, Textbook, p. 143.
20 . Brian Murphy, “Factors Restraining Emergence of New Influenza Viruses,” in Morse, Emerging Viruses, p.
240.
21 . Mark Gibbs, John Armstrong, and Adrian Gibbs, “Recombination in the Hemagglutinin Gene of the 1918
'Spanish Flu,' ” Science 293 (7 September 2001): pp. 1842-45.
22 . Ervin Fodor and George Brownlee, “Influenza Virus Replication,” in Potter, Influenza, p. 18.