6) Time and again, medical progress has been held back by strict beliefs. Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanityand shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time. 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. How does this blame affect our ability to control an epidemic or disease - blaming others compromises our ability.
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. Tracing the history of contagions from cholera to Ebola and beyond, science journalist Sonia Shah explains why we're more vulnerable to outbreaks now than ever before, what we can do to minimize the spread of coronavirus and how to prevent future pandemics.
At school, we all learned, with a shudder, how the Black Death ravaged Europe.
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