Get your face masks and gloves ready and let’s get smarter about pandemics!
Modern things like our global transportation systems and increased waste have made it easier for pathogens to spread.
As humans have settled all across the world, pathogens have adapted to infect us.Here are the 3 most relevant lessons I took away from this book: This book will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about pandemics. Some governments have inadequately handled the situation and germs are quickly spreading through modern travel, just to name a couple. It’s fascinating to see the very things she described that have happened before our eyes. Sonia Shah‘s Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond is incredibly relevant to what we are experiencing at this moment. COVID-19 originated in Wuhan and spread around the world in just months, overwhelming healthcare systems and shutting down entire countries. Currently, humanity is in the midst of just that. They’ve been warning us that we should be ready. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast.1-Sentence-Summary: Pandemic gives you an understanding of what pathogens and diseases are, how they evolve, what our lifestyle does to make them worse on us, how they can spread like wildfire, and most importantly, what we can do to stop them.įor years epidemiologists have been predicting a new pandemic would sweep the world soon. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. Summary: "From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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