As Shah traces each stage of cholera?s dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, she reports on the pathogens that have followed 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.

Experts around the world are bracing for a deadly, disruptive pandemic.In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah reveals how that could happen, by drawing parallels between cholera-one of history?s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens-and the new diseases that stalk us today. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond - Ebook written by Sonia Shah. Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory. Read Or Download Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond By Sonia Shah Full Pages.Ī thrilling glimpse into the next likely global contagion-and how to stop it.

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