While large epidemics seem to belong to history or be limited to a few developing countries, the risk that viruses such as cholera - which was endemic in London in the early 20th nineteenth century until John Snow discovers that spread through drinking water - will put again to decimate the Western populations is real. It was with the description of the episode of cryptosporidium, which caused more than one hundred deaths in the U.S. city of Milwaukee recently that environmental epidemiologist begins his book, before continuing with the detailed description the heroic struggle of the British physician against cholera, which he seems to identify with.
By tracking the virus then in space and time, from Egypt to Germany, referring to the fight founding fathers of the city of Chicago against typhoid which led them to reverse the course of the river, as well as engineers to ensure a safe water supply, Robert Morris portrays threatening to running water that feeds our homes.
is transmitting germs, toxins, or to serve as a vector of disease in the hands of bioterrorism, water could, if not more guarded, become a major predator of involuntary human race.
is why we offer, in conclusion of his book that some will unnecessarily alarmist, some solutions group and personal, including that filter he recommends everyone to bring order to preserve the "blue death".
Bruno Peres
For more information:
The_Blue_Death (comprehensive site on the book)
Review book, The Good Human
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Book Review, on the site Boston.com
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