![]() ![]() 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. In Pandemic, award-winning science journalist Sonia Shah shows how it can happen by drawing. Experts around the world are busy preparing for a devastating deadly epidemic. ![]() 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. Over the past 50 years, more than 300 infectious diseases have emerged for the first time or recurring in new territories. 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. ![]()
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