Wendy Orent
Cultural Anthropologist and Author, Atlanta, Georgia
Wendy Orent is an Atlanta-based anthropologist specialising in health and disease. She is the author of Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease (2012).
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Illness and disease
Stealth infections
From the Black Death to polio, the most dangerous pathogens have moved silently, transmitted by apparently healthy people
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Human evolution
When evolution is not a slow dance but a fast race to survive
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Illness and disease
The Black Death
At least one in three Europeans and untold millions in Asia died. What was the source of this brutal, lethal efficiency?
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Illness and disease
How plagues really work
The next pandemic will erupt, not from the jungle, but from the disease factories of hospitals, refugee camps and cities
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