The Killer Hiding In The Cdc Map Summary

The human race’s path to modernity has undoubtedly been shaped by scientific innovations in the arena of public health. From the days when disease was seen as a byproduct of odious smells or the wrath of god, to an ontological understanding of the microbes which manifest pestilence in humans, our current understanding of infectious disease has experienced criticism and backlash at every innovation or discovery. Even more concerning for citizens of the modern age are examples such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials, or the outbreak of AIDS, which show the lengths institutional authority will go in order to suppress the true origin of outbreaks and the means by which they control the publics understanding of them. In Jonathan Katz article, “The Killer Hiding in the CDC Map” the author argues since the devastating Haitian Earthquake of 2011, the spread of infectious Cholera was not as first believed a product of …show more content…
In fact, there had never been a diagnosed case of the disease in that country before.”. Despite a map on display in the CDC which exhibits the spread of Cholera in Haiti next to John Snow’s Ghost Map of the 1854 London Cholera epidemic, mainstream media, medical institutions, and even the Justice Department have reported Cholera was first diagnosed on the coast and spread upstream and later throughout the country. Snow’s map pinpoints the exact origin of the Broad Street outbreak is regarded as by Public health officials as procedure for tracing an outbreak to its source. Yet as the CDC has claimed since the Haitian outbreak, “pinpointing the source, Dr. Snow–style, was “not productive,” “not central,” and would likely never happen.” The controversy in Haiti has systematically been covered up by the CDC in Atlanta in order to protect the integrity of UN humanitarian efforts across the

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