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Feature Beyond the Fire-Hazard Mentality of Medicine: The Ecology of Infectious Diseases Jane Bradbury ifty years ago, many experts able to predict or ameliorate disease and so cholera remains an important believed that the war against outbreaks’. global health problem. Because her Finfectious diseases had largely studies showed that virtually all the V. been won. But in the last 30 years of From Ecology to Disease cholerae in water supplies are attached the 20th century, as people entered Prevention: The Cholera Example to 200 µm–long zooplankton, Colwell previously untouched wild areas A good example of how ecological reasoned that it might be possible to or wreaked wide-scale changes on studies can suggest new ways to prevent make water safe to drink simply by established ecosystems, numerous disease outbreaks is provided by the filtering it through layers of cloth. In a viruses (for example, Ebola) have work of Rita Colwell, director of recent trial in rural Bangladesh, cholera jumped from their long-time animal the United States’ National Science rates were halved when villagers filtered hosts to people who, not having the Foundation (Arlington, Virginia, their drinking water through eight appropriate immune layers of sari cloth, a defence, often succumb