دانلود کتاب Overturning Zika: The Pandemic That Never Was

Overturning Zika investigates (now-overshadowed) pandemic Zika-microcephaly: from improbable but terrifying arrival -- to immediate disappearance. Overturning Zika illuminates facts ignored at the time: for instance, in 2015 Brazil clinical Zika-testing didn’t exist; none were performed on “mild dengue” patients reclassified as novel “Zika”; nor during or after the microcephaly-birth pregnancies. These unfortunate moms were diagnosed through later telephone questionnaires.
Zika-microcephaly, the world's largest medical news story in 2016, brought shock, fear, and panic throughout the tropics – coincident with Brazilian assertions' casting the eternally harmless Zika-virus as the ultimate danger to pregnancy: potentially rendering hundreds of millions of women in pregnancy but one mosquito-bite away from irrevocable damage to the cherished life within. The WHO acknowledged and aggrandized this worldwide threat, uniquely amongst all the many mosquito-borne illnesses, as a "public health emergency of international concern".
Public health officials immediately took center stage, issuing travel advisories and recommending indefinite abstinence from pregnancy for certain populations. The relief of a vaccine was promised but never delivered. The WHO predicted four million cases of Zika in the Americas and numbers worldwide that would add one million cases of microcephaly per year.
It's a complete blessing that none of this occurred: not in 2016, nor any year subsequently. As soon as stricter measurements for both Zika and microcephaly came into existence, neither was found to show medical significance or mutual association. Zika and microcephaly have long existed independently of each other: the one harmless, the other tragic but rare – and they will continue to do so.
Why has the “good news” of both Zika’s and microcephaly’s disappearance been buried? Overturning Zika is no conspiracy-tale, but elucidates secondary interests and forces that keep narratives (however flimsily constructed) active, when serving political or institutional goals...M.F