![]() ![]() 6) Time and again, medical progress has been held back by strict beliefs. 5) Political deceit can enable pandemics. 3) Despite advancements in human waste management, feces can still lead to dangerous outbreaks. 2) Pathogens use our own transportation system to spread around. TED TALK: Sonia Shah: "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond" | Talks at Google FROM HISTORY How the founding of a bank contributed to a devastating cholera epidemic A virus that spread to five continents in the course of a single day KEY POINTS 1) As humans spread across the globe, previously harmless animal pathogens adapted to our bodies and made us sick. As the American tropics have urbanized, Aedes aegypti has dramatically expanded its rangeand with it the number of people vulnerable to the plethora of pathogens it carries, from dengue and. The story of cholera, and the death and destruction it has wrought on humankind, provides the backdrop for Sonia Shahs excellent Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. So what can we do? Well, to protect our own society and help others, we need to understand how outbreaks emerge and how they grow to catastrophic proportions. Thanks to modern medicine and good hygiene, a pandemic like that could never devastate the modern world! Or could it? Many epidemiologists believe that a global pandemic is going to hit in the near future. At school, we all learned, with a shudder, how the Black Death ravaged Europe. To reveal how a new pandemic might develop, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera’s dramatic journey, from its emergence in the South Asian hinterlands as a harmless microbe to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world, all the way to its latest beachhead in Haiti. ![]()
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