Book Review--Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

When Commerce and Illness Intersect by Bryan Burrough.  Review of Contagion:  How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison.  The New York Times.  February 2, 2013.

This book looks at almost every significant outbreak of cross-border disease since the black death focusing on the interplay between disease and commerce, politics and international diplomacy.  He devotes much attention to quarantine along with its use in diplomacy.  He views the most likely source of pandemics as huge factory farms that breed animal-to-human microbes.