If 2020 hasn’t been apocalyptic enough, here is my story on eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne virus that kills 40% of infected people… and appears to be spreading.
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Here, I trace the 2019 outbreak in the Northeast, which killed 15. You’ll notice how it eerily predicts the current pandemic, though at a much small scale. People sheltering in their houses. Fear and misinformation spreading on social media. A terrifying, microscopic culprit.
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What I realized while reporting is that both outbreaks are symptoms of environmental degradation and global warming. Along with forest fires, hurricane, floods, pestilence is part of our future. We are only beginning to grapple with this new epidemiological reality.
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It's important to add, in our current context, that disease burden, racial justice, and environmental justice all intersect, as I examine early in this piece. do great work in this area. e360.yale.edu/features/unequ
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I like the article for its info but the headline is a tadddd misleading becasue it obviously suggests a current spreading at this moment. Nothings happened in 2020 with this 🤷🏻♂️
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That’s all we need... jeez I’m about ready to tap out of this game.
Not sure we can take any more at this point! 😳
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