![]() ![]() ![]() Given these events, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah makes for a very timely read. ![]() As we struggle to understand both the scale and impact of the Zika and Ebola crises, we are forced to once again ask: how did this happen and what can we do to prevent the next one? Both viruses, previously thought to cause only limited outbreaks, surprised the people of the world with a seemingly sudden ability to spread across multiple countries and cause illness in new, previously unthinkable ways. Martin's Press, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, USA, 2016ĭuring the past 2 years, back-to-back epidemics of Ebola and Zika have stunned even seasoned public health officials with unprecedented levels of illness and death that have been associated with these events. ![]()
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