Epidemics and Pandemics in the 21st Century

Sonia Shah notes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/29/how-foreclosed-homes-and-used-tires-can-affect-public-health-in-the-age-of-zika/

“Commerce has long provided unexpected opportunities for infectious pathogens to exploit, from the Erie Canal, which slashed the cost of shipping while unwittingly carrying cholera across the country, to the hydropower dams that electrified the South while simultaneously providing succor for scores of malarial mosquitoes. Today, abandoned properties and deteriorating infrastructure, brought on by housing crises and climate change, similarly threaten us with epidemics of mosquito-borne pathogens such as Zika.”