From plagues to obesity: how epidemics have evolved
- Written by Hassan Vally, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, La Trobe University
The word “epidemic” immediately brings to mind a highly infectious and deadly disease of the kind found in Hollywood films. In Contagion, for instance, a lethal infection with frightening symptoms spreads like wildfire, threatening humanity as we know it.
The scary thing is that infectious disease epidemics in real life have the...