From Cholera to Zika — by Sonia Shah
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Over the past 50 years, more than 300 infectious diseases have either newly emerged or re-emerged into territory where they’ve never been seen before. A few weeks after the end of the Ebola crisis, the Zika virus is just the latest example. Each health crisis yields promises of new approaches and learning from our mistakes. And yet, we continue to fight global contagions in a similarly reactive, incremental fashion.