The spread ofdisease;Germs and money 疾病传播;细菌与金钱 Where and when will the next pandemic emerge? 下一次大范围流行病将于何时在哪里爆发? Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. ByMark Harrison. 《疫病蔓延:商业行为是如何传播疾病的》,马克哈里森著。 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. By David Quammen. 《溢出效应:动物传染病和下一场人类流行病》,大卫奎曼著。 On October 2nd a British traveller, flying home to Glasgow from Afghanistan, began to feel ill.Within hours he was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, a virus nastyenough for him to be put onto a military transport aircraft for transfer to an isolationhospital in London. Less than 24 hours later he was dead. 10月2号,一名英国旅行者从阿富汗乘飞机返回故乡格拉斯哥。在旅途中,他突然感到有些不适。几个小时以后他被诊断出患有克里米亚-刚果出血热这种疾病的病毒特别危险,足以让他被送上一架军用运输机并转移到伦敦的一家隔离医院里。他没撑过24小时就病发身亡了。 This outbreak, on top of another death last month in Saudi Arabia from a previouslyunknown virus, a cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , has set globalhealth agencies on edge. Ten years ago the deaths of a couple of travellers from foreign partsmight not have been news at all. But the fright of the SARS outbreak in 2003 has left alasting impression, and scientists and public-health officials now tend to see any putativedisease threat through its lens. |