Q Shah #1 due Thursday 9/17 by 11:59pm Shah #1 due Thursday 9/17 by 11:59pm Dear Class: We will now start with the Shah book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Read pp.1-56 and respond to the following: 1. Why does Shah refer to pandemics as "cholera's child?" 2. How does Shah connect current pandemics to climate change? 3. What are "wet markets?" Describe them. 4. Describe the vibrio cholerae. Where do they flourish? 5. What is the basic reproductive number? Using your browser find how it is being used today with COVID. 6. Why did bats cause Ebola in Guinea? Discuss. 7. What happened to wild animals when China's economic situation improved? 8. How does loss of species and degradation of the environment cause West Nile virus and Lyme disease? 9. Where does MRSA come from? Who has it? 10. Using your browser, research the global trade in wild animals. Report on what you find and citations please. 11. Describe the impact of cholera in Paris in 1932. For example, what were "cholera waltzes?" 12. How did the celebration of the opening of the Erie Canal symbolize the movement of waterborne diseases into the US? 13. Describe how one man in a hotel room created the global outbreak of SARS. Be sure to describe symptoms of SARS and how it spreads. 14. What has been the impact of medical tourism industry (i.e., India)? 15. Citations please.
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