A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION The global AIDS pandemic might well make the world’s poorest nations much, much poorer By 1988 Western economists and African leaders were asking “Will this epidemic slow, or even destroy, African …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION Representatives of 148 nations “We are entering a new era,” Mann had assured an international press corps. “We will make 1988 the year we turn the tide against the AIDS virus.” …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES The first penalty that capitalistic society had to pay for the ruthless exploitation of labor The Alma-Ata Declaration called for “the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES A startling increase in their incidence over the last decade Similar dam-related epidemics of Rift Valley fever would occur during the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES The world’s biggest health lender The World Bank didn’t begin to view health care as a specific part of its mission …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES Usually ignored were community-based projects From both sides of the Iron Curtain, donors’ monetary contributions to poor nations were all too …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES Twenty-six of the world’s most impoverished nations were in Africa There was nothing unique about Sierra Leone. The lack of basic …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES An instrument of biological warfare While his colleagues in Atlanta anguished over Swine Flu damage control, Joe McCormick was content to …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA The Bumba quarantine was lifted As Christmas 1976 approached, Peter Piot prepared to leave the place that had over two and a half months’ time come to feel like …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Absolutely no airplanes, trucks, or other vehicles were allowed Don Francis was burned out before he ever got involved in the Sudan episode. When CDC officers called him in …
