Pestilence: the Infection Begins
“He had spent all of his professional life in the field of immunology, infectious and contagious diseases, and death was not a total stranger to him; he’d witnessed its many guises and of course the consequences. As a young man, not long after his graduation from medical school, he’d volunteered to assist in treatment centers in West Africa. He was of the belief that hands-on experience was the best teacher. What he saw in Africa, particularly in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso, was how disease th...at was thought controlled, preventable or nonexistent in Europe flourished in poverty-stricken areas of the world. Moya saw the relationship between wealth and health firsthand; he didn’t need to read how the greedy treated the poor or their contempt for the suffering—he had witnessed it with his own eyes. The lack of clean water, food, sanitation and electricity, which the modern Western world takes for granted, and the continuous warfare on display in many parts of Africa contributed to the spread of disease and death.MoreLess
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