This is such an important and underrepresented perspective on the past and present relationships between tropical health/medicine and colonialism

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Thoughtful article; worth a read.

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@helenbranswell.bsky.social was probably the only person on here who each year closely tracked/posted US pediatric flu deaths—always covering every change for past seasons, too. these threads never got much notice or attention, but she kept writing them because she believed they should be reported.

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"Conflating this accident with Russian bioweapons research activities is not helpful because this was a public-health lab where this incident happened. The idea that all public-health labs are secretly working on bioweapons is just nonsense." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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My first novel, Lament for the Fallen, is essentially this question in long form. That people will live through an age where entire cities leave earth to travel in the solar system while people continue to toil in poverty "in the dust they so really shed".

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