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The terrorist attack in Rome had everyone on edge.
“An unusual cluster of adolescent fatalities in a refugee camp in Indonesia,”
Kongoli Number Two Camp in West Java.”
bloody discharges, rapid
if COVID did this many pros would believe it??
but instead of the usual U-shaped graph, this one resembled a crude W, with an average age of death of
twenty-nine.
overall lethality at 70...
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Maria Savona, director of epidemiology at the World He...
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“Shigella,”
cautionary tale about how demographic stereotypes can blind us to facts that would otherwise be obvious.”
thought Henry Parsons
Hans Somebody
not even worthy of a full name
that,” Maria said,
Hans says MSF is there, so they can help. Just get slides and samples. In and out and on your way back to Atlanta.”
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, where Henry was deputy director for infectious diseases,
“It’s probably nothing, but it’s one of those things,” Henry said.
impending doom
“Terima kasih, Bambang,” Henry said, exhausting his Indonesian vocabulary.
health minister then, Siti Fadilah Supari,
Minister Siti called her new policy “viral sovereignty.”
Science knows no borders, nor does disease—especially a disease that can literally fly across international boundaries on the wings of a dove.
Minister Annisa Novanto
BAMBANG ANSWERED HIS CELL right away. “Yes, boss, I am here,
Kongoli camp from
“It’s for the gays,”
Médecins Sans Frontières
doctors without borders
armies. Disease was more arbitrary than terrorism. Disease was crueler than human imagination. And yet young people like
Fernbank
The blue lady.
“Probable heavy internal bleeding.” Cholera didn’t bleed.
frothy pink liquid.
rickshaw were nowhere to be seen. He was nearly certain that the disease in Kongoli was not bacterial. This was something new. It could be a
coronavirus like SARS or MERS,
Little Five Points to pick up Teddy’s birthday cake
They lived on Ralph McGill Boulevard, near the Carter Presidential Library, in a 1920s two-story redbrick house that they bought during the recession. It was built by the people who had owned
Matilda Nichinsky to
deputy secretary for homeland security without
four of them fell ill, and one died.
rumors? A bluff? Partial facts were summoned to support poorly considered actions in parts of the world where America had few friends and no crucial national interests. That’s how we got into Vietnam, she thought.
“How long do you have to stay in quarantine?” “Fourteen days, as long as there are no symptoms.”
“I need Marco to head it,” he said, referring to Marco Perella, who had been with him through many disease campaigns.
We need to run down everyone who has been in or out of this place in the last month. Food
contact tracing
blood sample that Henry had extracted from the doctor’s corpse was densely coagulated.
so presumably a significant percentage of the detainee population have compromised immune systems.
his first boss at the CDC, Dr. Pierre Rollin, a Frenchman with merry eyes, who was chief of the Viral Special Pathogens Branch. Henry watched him
The legacy of ancient infections might be found in as much as 8 percent of the human genome, including the genes that controlled memory formation, the immune system, and cognitive development. We wouldn’t be who we are
without them.
“We should have daily updates,” Henry
said. “Any suspicious deaths have to be investigated.”
health minister, Annisa Novanto. She
Perhaps the disease was playing itself out, Henry thought.
