![]() In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, the prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah-whose book on malaria, The Fever, was called a “tour-de-force history” ( The New York Times) and “revelatory” ( The New Republic)-interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of contagions, drawing parallels between cholera, one of history’s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today. While we can’t know which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, by unraveling the story of how pathogens have caused pandemics in the past, we can make predictions about the future. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. ![]() Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they’ve never been seen before. Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |