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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: 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: 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 — most recently — 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: 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...
