The Stockholm Paradigm
The Stockholm Paradigm The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Evolutionary biologists assured themselves that coevolution between pathogens and hosts…
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The Stockholm Paradigm
The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Evolutionary biologists assured themselves that coevolution between pathogens and hosts provided a firewall against disease emergence in new hosts. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and eradicating the parts of the biosphere responsible for disease transmission.
None of these traditional perspectives anticipated the onslaught of emerging infectious diseases confronting humanity today.As this book reveals, a new understanding of the evolution of pathogen-host systems, called the Stockholm Paradigm, explains what is happening. Most climate scientists made no connection between climate changes and disease. The planet is a minefield of pathogens with preexisting capacities