Urban Growth And SARS

Lyme disease is linked to suburban development. Rapid urban growth makes the world's cities more vulnerable to SARS and other pandemics.

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May 5, 2003, 5:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"...[O]ur megacities, factory farms, jet planes and blood banks [are] opening broad new avenues for infection. The dark side of progress is now unmistakable; many of the advances that have made our lives more comfortable have also made them more dangerous. Some 30 new diseases have cropped up since the mid-1970scausing tens of millions of deathsand forgotten scourges have resurfaced with alarming regularity."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: How Progress Makes Us Sick

Monday, May 5, 2003 in Newsweek

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