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Talking s**t with Rose George: A Q&A about the global health issue no one wants to bring up

Posted By Brooke Borel
April 15, 2013 at 11:57 am EDT

A single gram of poop contains 50 diseases, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasites, 100 worm eggs and 10 million viruses, by journalist Rose George’s tally. For people who have flushing toilets, this is something that they rarely have to think about. But for the 2.5 billion people in the world who have no toilet at […]

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Happy birthday John Snow, father of modern epidemiology: A Q&A with Steven Johnson

Posted By Brooke Borel
March 15, 2013 at 2:09 pm EDT

Shanghai. New York. Tehran. Tokyo. Today, dozens of cities worldwide are each home to many millions of people. But those masses of humanity might not exist in such tight quarters if not for John Snow. (No, not that Jon Snow. This John Snow.) Snow was a 19th-century English doctor who’s credited with proving that cholera, […]