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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond Paperback – 28 March 2017

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More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations.

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. 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. A deep-dive into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like―and what we can do to prevent it.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador US; Reprint edition (28 March 2017)
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  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 125011800X
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.27 x 2.06 x 21.06 cm
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Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American and elsewhere. Her work has been featured on RadioLab, Fresh Air, and TED, where her talk, "Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria" has been viewed by over 1,000,000 people around the world. Her 2010 book, The Fever, which was called a "tour-de-force history of malaria" (New York Times), "rollicking" (Time), and "brilliant" (Wall Street Journal) was long-listed for the Royal Society's Winton Prize. Her new book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, is forthcoming from Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February 2016.

Her prize-winning 2006 drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (New Press), has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a tautly argued study...a trenchant exposé...meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence," and as "important [and] powerful" by The New England Journal of Medicine. The book, which international bestselling novelist and The Constant Gardener author John Le Carré called "an act of courage," has enjoyed wide international distribution, including French, Japanese, and Italian editions. The Library Journal named it one of the best consumer health books of 2006.

Shah was born in 1969 in New York City to Indian immigrants. Growing up, she shuttled between the northeastern United States where her parents practiced medicine and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a life-long interest in inequality between and within societies. She holds a BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience from Oberlin College, and lives with molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer and their two sons Zakir and Kush.

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Jane Scrivenor
5.0 out of 5 stars Prophetic but not really
Reviewed in Australia on 26 October 2020
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Scientists have known for years that another pandemic is on its way. And now that it's here what are we going to do about preventing another one? Probably nothing much. So long as humans keep destroying the Earth these viruses will keep escaping from their natural environments and infecting humans.
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PatriciaMarguerite
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written book about disease through the ages, including today.
Reviewed in Canada on 18 December 2022
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Thoroughly researched, this well done book presents easy-to-read facts about pandemics. You don't have to be a scientist to appreciate the details. Recommended wholeheartedly.
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R RAM MOHAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking and mandatory read on pandemics
Reviewed in India on 5 July 2021
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This is one of the most topical and interesting books I have read in recent times . Sonia Shah , a science journalist , provides us with both the history and science of most of the major pandemics faced by humanity such as malaria , cholera ,Lyme disease ,Ebola etc. Though originally published in 2016 , this edition has been updated in 2020 with relevance to the latest scourge , the corona virus . Shah notes that the human struggle with the bacterial world around us , some of it friendly and others pathogenic , is both existential and perpetual. She takes up in detail the origin and spread of the water borne Vibrio Cholerae bacteria from the wetlands of Sunderbans in India to the far corners of the world. Her description of the tackling of cholera will be fascinating to many of us for its laying bare the then unhygienic living habits of major Western cities like London and New York ( ' the rising tide of feculence ' ) and the stubborn scepticism of its establishment to scientific findings , which prolonged the duration of the disease and increased its fatalities. She identifies systematically the factors that help the spread of a disease globally as globalization itself , rapid and easy forms of transport , crowding of cities ,poor sanitation , low awareness and unwillingness to commit funds for public health .The author rightly devotes lot of space to the steps to be taken to prevent epidemics from developing in to pandemics . These measures , not surprisingly , turn out to be both laborious and expensive , such as regular surveilance of hot spots ( like the Wuhan wet markets ) , prompt containment of initial breakouts , setting up permanent establishments for disease control , quick and seamless exchange of information across the globe etc. The book , very much a cautionary tale , is based on first hand reporting and deep research and never boring . It should be mandatory reading in these difficult times for public officials as well as general public.
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Jeff
5.0 out of 5 stars Good historical view
Reviewed in the United States on 7 March 2020
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While this is a good historical report the author’s solutions really become obvious only with the benefit of hindsight. Shah suggests on balance that private enterprise solutions lead to disaster such as with Manhattan’s early water supply system. This ignores the obvious fact that the Manhattan Company started with a corrupt government contact and governmental support. Many of the other outbreaks were caused by intentional wrong doing by governments or governmental type agencies such as the UN in Haiti, China’s failure to disclose to SARS and avian flus, outbreaks during World Fair events, etc. Add Woodrow Wilson’s intentional failure to acknowledge the obvious impact of troops in close quarters as a contributor to the spread and death due to the Spanish Influenza which dwarfed war casualties.
Now we have the “peoples’” government of China actively suppressing news of the initial outbreak of COVID 19 as well as important follow up data on the spread and impact of the disease. These were all politically motivated, not profit motivated, failures. We have no clear idea yet about what is actually going on in Wuhan today, months after the initial outbreak.
Unfortunately, as Shah also pointed out, even the medical community sometimes gets it wrong particularly when the outbreak is something new that requires a new paradigm.
We need free and unrestricted access to information at times like this. We also need an economic community which rewards transparency and punishes countries, organizations, and individuals who conceal data.
I fear instead we will just let everyone get back to “business as usual” once the current epidemic subsides.
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Patrick Ahern
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinatingly Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2020
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A great read. As an Irishman I was fascinated to learn about the origins of our 18th century famine aswell as our treatment in the USA during Cholera outbreaks. Also the Corporate responsibility for outbreaks in New York attributable to the likes of JP Morgan was another great piece of info. A very relevant book in 2020.
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Shelly Siegert
5.0 out of 5 stars A well written informative read!
Reviewed in the United States on 16 October 2021
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I really liked this book for the writer's ability to deliver sufficient amount of research backed information and political takes without it feeling like a scholarly journal review. The writer includes accounts of their own experiences traveling the world and chasing information of these innumerable epidemics. I have seen first hand for the first time in my life how the U.S. has taken care of a pandemic like Covid-19, but little did I know about the varying responses to pandemic around the world for centuries and how corruption and cultural differences play into a pandemic response. What we learned in history classes about pandemics is futile in comparison to this read.
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