ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an attention to an controversy between integrated aquafarming proponents and virologists concerned with public health effects of integrated aquacultural development. It explains about viruses, poultry, pigs, fish, and people. Hence the role of pigs as "mixing vessels" for new strains of human influenza viruses becomes apparent. Stephen Morse lists human diseases which have been linked to humans through animal carriers. The chapter presents a five stage summary of the controversy by using written accounts that have appeared in popular scientific journals. There are The Sholtissek and E. Naylor Article, Response by Peter Edwards et al. and Reply, The Morse Essay and the World Aquaculture Society Editorial, Managing for Damage Control, and "Cultivating a Killer Virus". The chapter describes how these scientists construct "societies." It discusses, with particular focus on aquacultural development, how an analysis of scientific controversies may provide valuable insights into science and society.
