![]() ![]() Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged. Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world. The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanesįilth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south ChinaĬrowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolisĬorruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with choleraīlame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands Includes bibliographical references (pages -253) and index. Viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) 24 cm ![]() New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. ![]() Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah. ![]()
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