Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

by Jonathan Kennedy

It’s a bacterial world, and we’re just squatting here.

infectious diseases have killed so many people throughout history that they are one of the strongest forces shaping human evolution.

“history from below and not from above.”

human civilization began when we started to care for the weak and sick.[41]

Which we no longer do because selfish

Charles Darwin succinctly put it: “Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.”

Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) is one of the poorest countries in the world today.

And experiencing another genocide

is not unreasonable to conclude that these societies would have been better off if Europeans had never discovered

Feel like it is safe to say that everyone would have been better off if Europeans had never done anything