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HUMANITY’S ONGOING QUEST TO END EPIDEMICS AND ESCAPE CONTAGION
By Betsy Kaplan
Published June 22, 2023 at 5:00 AM EDT
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Before Covid, Most Americans couldn’t imagine the staggering loss of life that
earlier generations experienced during epidemics of smallpox, diphtheria, polio
and other fatal infectious diseases. We’ve been living in a golden age since
WWII, when widespread use of vaccines and antibiotics eradicated the biggest
killers and doubled life expectancy. But the catch-22 of medical discovery is
that over time, we collectively forget the horror of the diseases from which we
were saved.
Today, a look at our never-ending quest to escape contagion. We also talk about
the myth of ‘Patient Zero’ and a lunar pandemic that never happened.
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Guggenheim Fellow. His most recent book is Ending Epidemics: A History of
Escape From Contagion.
* Leyla Mei is a New York City-based writer and medical historian. She has a
PhD in American history and writes about disease, risk and race.
* Dagomar DeGroot is an associate professor of environmental history at
Georgetown University. His work has appeared in Aeon magazine, The
Conversation, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. His most recent
book, Ripples in the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Humanity's
Place in the Solar System, will be published in 2024.
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