BY ANNALIISA GIFFORD
Steven Johnson has written us, in these 4 chapters, a summary of the cholera epidemic in London and it’s terrifying roots. The disease was frighteningly contagious and began in the dirty systems of transportation and sewage in SoHo, London on Broad Street. It is outstanding to me that one sick child began the outbreak that we know as cholera. One person’s sickness wrought the sickness and painful deaths of thousands of others. Knowing this, I’d like to pose a few questions to the readers and those contemplating the epidemic.
Do you think a widespread epidemic like the epidemic in London could reproduce itself in the United States in present day?
How would the economy and our health care policies react to this?
