A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 17: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS The largest short-term refugee migration in world history On April 6, 1994, an airplane was shot down over Rwanda during the final leg of its flight from Tanzania to …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS The organism hid in algal scum During the 1970s Rita Colwell, convinced that the entire oceanic crisis was directly imperiling human health by permitting the emergence of cholera …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS Large numbers of dead seals In 1987, Siberian fishermen and hunters working around Lake Baikal noticed large numbers of dead seals washing up along the shores of the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 16: NATURE AND HOMO SAPIENS The microbes were winning That humanity had grossly underestimated the microbes was no longer, as the world approached the 21st century, a matter of doubt. The microbes were …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION No Peace Dividend appeared With the fall of the Berlin Wall politicians all over the world spoke of a Peace Dividend. The world had surplus cash and long-neglected social programs could …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 14: THIRDWORLDIZATION How could we even be thinking of 30% to 40% HIV seropositivity? Physically Subhash Hira had changed little over the years. But inwardly he was a very different man. Keeping track …
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 …
