Zika

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-29-16
  

  In Reaction to Zika Outbreak, Echoes of Polio

  New York’s polio epidemic a century ago had many of the problems found in the response to Zika: false rumors, ethnic prejudice and ineffective measures.

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• 2-27-16
  

  Why We Have Reason to Fear Zika

  by John Robert McNeill

  Mosquito-borne disease a monster killer in the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-12-16
  

  How Flint’s water and Brazil’s Zika stoke anxiety about kids

  by Steven Mintz

  The key question is whether Americans will respond to Zika and lead poisoning as problems predominantly of the poor, met with pity and a shrug of the shoulders, or as a call to arms.