Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?

An interesting article in Popular Science that touches on several issues we will cover in this class.

Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?
A deadly outbreak of cholera followed the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti three years ago this week. Jonathan Katz, the only American reporter stationed in Haiti at the time, explains what caused the outbreak--and why it was anything but inevitable.

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