Through this tracing, she takes us through the different factors set by human beings which helped the viruses.
The author traces the path of cholera, from its origins to the many different forms it has taken till date. The author’s picks much dreaded cholera to present her topics. She uses the book to explain how human behaviour during different periods, defined the emergence and sustenance of pathogens and the unique situations when they created pandemics. Science journalist and prize winning author Sonia Shah “through the lens of human agency” elucidates the long standing relationship between human beings and pandemics. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like - and what we can do to prevent it. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. BioScience is ranked among the top journals in its ISI category (Biology) for both Impact Factor and Citation Half-Life.More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or remerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations.
Roundtables, forums, and viewpoint articles provide the perspectives of opinion leaders and invite further commentary. A peer-reviewed, heavily cited, monthly journal with content written and edited for accessibility to researchers, educators, and students alike, BioScience includes articles about research findings and techniques, advances in biology education, professionally written feature articles about the latest frontiers in biology, discussions of professional issues, book reviews, news about AIBS, a policy column (Washington Watch), and an education column (Eye on Education). Published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), BioScience presents readers with timely and authoritative overviews of current research in biology, accompanied by essays and discussion sections on education, public policy, history, and the conceptual underpinnings of the biological sciences.
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