[Media Watch] A history lesson

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”, wrote the renowned Spanish philosopher George Santayana. While the COVID-19 pandemic may have taken many by surprise and made us all too aware of the invisible enemies with which we share the planet, the truth is that microorganisms have posed an ever-present danger throughout the history of humanity. With this in mind, author Salvador Macip believes that only by learning the history of the epidemics that have shaped human history we can better prepare ourselves for the next one. “The fact that the general public isn’t fully aware of the role infections have played in the history of humanity, and will keep playing in its future, is one of the reasons that prompted me to write this book”, he explains in the epilogue to his latest work Modern epidemics: from the Spanish flu to COVID-19.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00286-3

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