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Shah: India’s Superhospitals And Superbugs

Znet Article, January, 05 2013 Sonia Shah
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Medical tourism in India can greatly reduce the cost to westerners of the best and fastest surgery. It can also lead to an infection by the latest and nastiest superbugs

Shah: Revenge of the Microbes: Taming Drug-Resistant Malaria

Commentary, April, 30 2012 Sonia Shah
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The sad truth is that each wonder drug we’ve thrown at malaria—and every other infectious disease—has fallen to drug-resistant pathogens

Shah: Antibiotic-resistant NDM-1 Is Undermining India's Medical Sector

Znet Article, March, 31 2012 Sonia Shah
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Over the past two decades, antibiotic drugs have started to fail one by one, as bacteria with resistance to them have emerged and spread

Shah: Climate’s Strong Fingerprint

Commentary, February, 23 2011 Sonia Shah
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For decades, deadly outbreaks of cholera were attributed to the spread of disease through poor sanitation. But recent research demonstrates how closely cholera is tied to environmental and hydrological factors and to weather patterns — all of whic...

Shah: Learning to Live With Malaria

Znet Article, October, 12 2010 Sonia Shah
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It’s technically straightforward to eliminate malaria from an area. At least in theory. You reduce the ability of mosquitoes to bite people, treat every sick victim with curative drugs and prevent any infected person from bringing new parasites in...

Shah: TED Lecturer Exploits African Women & Children

Commentary, March, 16 2010 Sonia Shah
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Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the...

Shah: The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

Book, February, 23 2010

By Sonia Shah

An urgent, far-reaching examination of one of the deadliest diseases in history. In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have ...

Shah: Review of new Harrison Ford flick, "Extraordinary Measures"

Commentary, February, 23 2010 Sonia Shah
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Compared to, say, espionage or alien warfare, the drug development business rarely appears on the big screen, and its few cinematic portrayals generally involve sinister white-coated characters doing shadowy experiments. In that sense, the new fil...

Shah: Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

Commentary, January, 09 2010 Sonia Shah
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Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and â€” most recently â€” bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e...

Shah: On Speckled Legs and Springtime Mosquitoes: Reflections on World Malaria Day 2009

Commentary, April, 24 2009 Sonia Shah
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Last weekend, the mosquitoes emerged from the narrow stream that trickles by our house outside Baltimore, flitting around the ankles of my 9-year-old son, skipping stones with his pants rolled up to his knees.

Shah: FDA Puts Medical Test Subjects in Danger

Znet Article, May, 20 2008 Sonia Shah
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With hardly a word in the mainstream press, the FDA has gutted the rules restraining drug companies from exploiting clinical trial subjects in developing countries.

Shah: Malaria Resurges Around the Globe

Commentary, April, 24 2008 Sonia Shah
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There is a disease that annually sickens over one-half billion people, killing over 1 million. Because of climate change, increasingly aggressive resource extraction, and growing multi-drug resistance, every year, the disease fells 16 percent more...