The African Swine Fever Novel - Softcover

Ortleb, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1726324524 ISBN 13: 9781726324526

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

This is a very funny book about talking pigs. But it is so much more than that. Charles Ortleb has written a contemporary allegorical fable about the overlapping breakdown of the porcine and human public health systems.

As African Swine Fever Virus, a deadly virus that infects pigs, is spreading in China and threatens to infect pigs in Western Europe and may even reach America, the timing of this provocative novel could not be more perfect. As fears grow that the virus might be capable of infecting humans, this book raises troubling questions about the honesty and competence of public health officials. Could the next human epidemic be lurking in pigs? Has a pig virus already quietly infected us and is it responsible for mysterious illnesses like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Alzheimer's, AIDS, and autism?

Charles Ortleb's novel brilliantly reveals the political and existential status of man and pig in a laugh-out-loud, mini-epic of a narrative that readers everywhere will be quoting at the water cooler. The book has so many dynamic moving parts that it reads like it is reflecting the state of our world in real time.

Some will call Ortleb's novel an edgy, postmodern, meta-satire, while others will deem it a jolly good tale that opens our eyes to the situation of the human-like pigs and porcine humans in our midst. In the upside-down world of this visionary book, the pigs talk and the humans oink. The pigs are more terrified of getting cockamamie diseases from humans than the humans are of getting them from pigs.

One never escapes the feeling in this zany tale Ortleb has strategically nailed something utterly monstrous that will one day bite us all on the ass, if it hasn't already. This provocative and hilarious book is as wild and crazy as a fox. A literary and philosophical torch has been passed from Orwell to Ortleb. The world has a new classic.

Charles Ortleb was the first publisher and editor-in-chief to provide the world with extensive coverage of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at a time when most of the media was looking the other way. He is the author of several books that have provided the world with the definitive history of the AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic.

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From the Author:

Your newspaper covered the possible connection between human infections and African Swine Fever back in the 80s?Yes, my newspaper, New York Native, reported on the idea that Jane Teas had about African Swine Fever causing immune problems in human beings. African Swine Fever had broken out in countries close to the United States and it seemed like only a matter of time before it would be in the United States. Working with a scientist named John Beldekas, she found evidence that it was infecting AIDS patients.Is it true that John Beldekas presented his evidence to Robert Gallo and his associates at the National Cancer Institute?Yes, and a few months later Gallo's people claimed to have discovered a virus that was eventually called African Swine Fever. Beldekas blew the whistle and suggested he just gave African Swine Fever a new name, that he deprived Beldekas and Teas of the credit of discovering African Swine Fever in humans,So Gallo may have stolen the research on African Swine Fever the way he stole the French research on the virus that is supposedly HIV?Yes. Gallo deserves a Nobel Prize for appropriating the work of other scientists.Does this mean that all the diseases associated with HHV-6 may really be associated with African Swine Fever?Exactly.So what looks like an HHV-6 epidemic in humans is really an African Swine Fever epidemic?Precisely. That's why scientists dealing with mysterious immunological illnesses like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, autism, Alzheimer's etc. need to study African Swine Fever.So if African Swine Fever is associated with immunological illnesses in people, has it also been causing immunological illnesses in American pigs?If you study the health of pigs ever since the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS epidemics broke out, you will find that they have had illnesses similar to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS which have been given all kinds of silly new names. The best way to cover up an African Swine Fever epidemic in pigs and people is to give every new manifestation a bizarre new name. It creates a cockamamie political and scientific mess which I use humor and satire to capture in The African Swine Fever Novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1726324524
• ISBN 13: 9781726324526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138