World Watch, January 1st, 2004
Mark Jerome Walters, Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them (Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003). We are not so much victims of nature as of our own actions. And these we have the power to change.--Mark Jerome Walters, at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Oct. 17, 2003. In 1999 Enrico Gabrielli became the first known victim of West Nile encephalitis in the western hemisphere. A resident of Queens, New York, he had apparently never been to Africa. In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters explains the mystery this w...
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