On Sunday, April 22, The New York Times led its front page with a story revealing that infant death rates were rising in the South, particularly among African Americans. To sociologist David Williams, that was hardly news. Williams is one of the world’s leading scholars on racial disparities in health. Now the Norman Professor of […]
Madeline Drexler
Madeline Drexler is the author of Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections.
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Iceberg, Plague, Flood
Asked on September 1 about the high death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said, “Unfortunately, that’s going to be attributable to a lot of people who did not heed the advance warnings.” He added: “I don’t make judgments about why people chose not to leave.” His […]
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The Germ Front:
See Sidebar: “Undermining International Bioweapons Controls“ With one Florida man dead of anthrax and another exposed, frightened Americans want to know if something even worse than the horrific events of September 11 now lies ahead of us. Could terrorists loose bioweapons of mass destruction upon us: anthrax and smallpox, botulism and plague, invisibly […]
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Undermining International Bioweapons Controls
Sidebar to “The Invisible Enemy“ Just a week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, American news media reported that the U.S. government had conducted clandestine research on biowarfare preparedness. The Pentagon had secretly drawn up plans to reproduce a Russian genetically-engineered strain of the anthrax bacterium in order to test the U.S. military’s anthrax vaccine. […]