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Recommended Books, June 2020 – Scientific American

Share this on WhatsApp No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital during World War I by Wendy Moore Basic Books, 2020 ($30) When World War I began, the relatively few English women who had medical degrees were effectively blocked from practicing in prominent hospitals and were relegated to low-paying and […]

Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens to Derail Polio Eradication–but There’s a Silver Lining

Share this on WhatsApp The year 2020 was on track to be a good one for South Sudan’s polio hunters. But now many of those working in the global polio eradication campaign are grappling with the potential reversal of much of their work. All house-to-house immunization efforts have been suspended because of the continuing coronavirus […]

Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics

Share this on WhatsApp SARS, Ebola and now SARS-CoV-2: all three of these highly infectious viruses have caused global panic since 2002—and all three of them jumped to humans from wild animals that live in dense tropical forests. Three quarters of the emerging pathogens that infect humans leaped from animals, many of them creatures in […]