![]() ![]() Had the attack waited until the plane was airborne, everyone would have been infected and the passengers would have carried the infection to the United States. ![]() A man who had already boarded had an explosive choleric attack that required his removal from the plane and for it to be thoroughly disinfected. Ready to leave Haiti after studying its massive cholera outbreak, she was about to board an airplane when access was denied. Shah also knows pandemics from a personal level. She is the author of The Fever, an award-winning account that tracks the rise and effects of malaria across the world. She is a science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Scientific American, on Fresh Air and TED Talks. ![]() Shah knows her subject and tells the story in an understandable and chilling manner. Cholera, H5N1, Ebola, MRSA, AIDS, bubonic plague, and SARS are just a few of the more than 300 infectious diseases new or reborn in that period. ![]() Unfortunately, Zika is just the latest in a lengthening list of epidemics and pandemics that have appeared in the last 50 years. With the Zika virus dominating the news, there is no more apropos time for Sonia Shah’s Pandemic to appear. ![]()
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