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Migration is the planet's connective tissue

Sonia Shah — 2020-11-12T17:17:57Z

Movement has shaped Earth as we know it but we're only now starting to understand, says science journalist Sonia Shah.
When people start moving, we call it a “migrant crisis.” It's reflexive. And it happens regardless of whether host societies have the capacity to absorb migrants or whether migrants themselves and the societies they enter and leave would be better or worse off because of their movements.
In part, that's because we've long misunderstood the scale and meaning of movement (…)

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From Cholera to Zika

Sonia Shah — 2016-02-23T21:28:52Z

Over the past 50 years, more than 300 infectious diseases have either newly emerged or re-emerged into territory where they've never been seen before. A few weeks after the end of the Ebola crisis, the Zika virus is just the latest example. Each health crisis yields promises of new approaches and learning from our mistakes. And yet, we continue to fight global contagions in a similarly reactive, incremental fashion.
By Sonia Shah Journalist, author of “Pandemic” from which this piece is (…)

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Mapping Cholera

Dan McCarey and Sonia Shah — 2014-12-08T15:06:46Z

by Sonia Shah Science journalist
Ebola may be the latest never-before-seen pathogen spreading out-of-control in impoverished communities devastated by conflict and environmental catastrophe—but it's not the first. Four years ago this week, a similarly virulent pathogen, expert at preying upon societies where poor sanitation, crowding, and mistrust reign, devastated an island-nation just 800 miles off the coast of Florida, in an out-of-control epidemic that continues to this day.
Vibrio (…)

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Cartographier le choléra

Dan McCarey et Sonia Shah — 2014-11-18T12:44:43Z

par Sonia Shah Journaliste scientifique
Ebola est le dernier en date des virus pathogènes envahissant de façon incontrôlable une communauté appauvrie et ravagée par un conflit ou une catastrophe environnementale ; mais il n'est pas le premier. Il y a quatre ans, presque jour pour jour, un autre pathogène d'une virulence similaire, d'une grande capacité à fondre sur des sociétés caractérisées par un assainissement défaillant, la surpopulation et la méfiance, dévastait l'île-nation d'Haïti, (…)

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