TY - JOUR
AU - Carmody, Pádraig
AB - Energy, environment and global health of disease characteristics, Khan lays bare the complexities that frame how epidemiologists track down unfolding contagions. At a time when the threat of infectious diseases remains high on the political agenda, Khan takes an original look at how the nature of tackling disease outbreaks has evolved throughout history and what the main challenges facing the prevention of future health emergencies are. One of the major strengths of this book is Khan’s ability to demonstrate that the threat of an infectious disease anywhere is a threat of an infectious disease everywhere. From the very first chapter, his clear argument that ‘no country can afford to isolate its public health system’ (p. 25) rings true. For instance, Khan describes how a strain of swine flu that resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 people in India was also the cause of cases seen in multiple states across the United States and Canada. Likewise, the author explains how ‘the right mosquito, and the right bird … combining to create the right enzoonotic cycle’ (p. 149) gave rise to the outbreak of West Nile virus in the Middle East, North America and Africa. While the book contains 
TI - Congo's environmental paradox: potential and predation in a land of plenty
JF - International Affairs
DO - 10.1093/ia/iix072
DA - 2017-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/congo-s-environmental-paradox-potential-and-predation-in-a-land-of-CRBkImifvi
SP - 735
EP - 737
VL - 93
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -