PositiveThe New York Review of BooksZika provides a devastating backdrop for Sonia Shah’s Pandemic. But far from opportunism, the book represents six years’ work and considerable prescience on Shah’s part ... Shah’s book should be required reading for anyone working in global health. It should also alert a much wider audience to the ways that many kinds of the microorganisms called pathogens have caused Western pandemics of chronic, or so-called noncommunicable, diseases.
