cholera

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• SOURCE: The Lancet
  2/19/2022
  

  The Lancet: John Snow Myth Hides Public Health's Roots in Slavery and Empire

  Historian Jim Downs's "Maladies of Empire" is cited as a source showing that the profession of public health grew out of the concerns of slavery, war and imperialism.

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• 2/13/2022
  

  New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic

  by Daniel S. Levy

  The 1832 Cholera epidemic roiled New York, terrorizing the city across lines of class and neighborhood. Today, the city's resilience can be a source of encouragement, but also a caution that today's pandemic won't be the last. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2020
  

  Covid-19 is Forcing Us to Dwell in Uncertainty. History Can Help.

  by Sari Altschuler

  Writings on long-ago cholera outbreaks contain lessons in navigating unknowns.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/14/2020
  

  How the ‘Father of Epidemiology’ Made the Connection Between Disease and Geography

  by Deirdre Mask

  “The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings,” Steven Johnson writes. “They were dying because they were being poisoned.”

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  Pandemics and the Shape of Human History

  Outbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations, prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/25/20
  

  The rising panic over coronavirus is likely to make containing it harder

  by Danielle B. Wetmore

  Panics spread misinformation that make crafting sound medical solutions more difficult, while fueling bigotry.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1-8-14
  

  With Help of Victims From 1849, Scientists Decode Early Strain of Cholera

  Cholera experts praised the work, although they disagreed about what it proved about the disease’s recent history.