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Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science reporter covering plagues and pestilences for the New York Times, where he began work as a copy boy in 1976. He is a former Africa correspondent and has reported from fifty-five countries.

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Fauci habla en entrevista de c��mo fue trabajar para Trump

Negacionismo, incomodidad y amenazas de muerte: el doctor Anthony Fauci describe un a��o tenso como asesor del presidente Donald Trump para la pandemia de COVID-19.
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“disease itself was the perfect vaccine. And, if everyone around a woman was similarly “vaccinated,” there was no virus for mosquitoes to pick up and infect her with. What governments should really do, I thought, was ask women to wait if they could—and encourage everyone to get bitten. Yes,”
Donald G. McNeil, Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

“What governments should really do, I thought, was ask women to wait if they could—and encourage everyone to get bitten. Yes,”
Donald G. McNeil, Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

“was not ethical in 1947 for scientists to use Africans as bait. That was progress. White farmers in some parts of colonial Africa protected their cattle from tsetse fly diseases by paying “fly boys.” Tsetse flies hatch near rivers and are attracted to dark colors—including black skin. Young men—the fly boys—would stand shirtless in riverside brush, slapping dead every fly that landed on them. At day’s end, they were paid a bounty per fly. The risk they took was that tsetses carry the parasite for sleeping sickness, a human disease that leads to a horrible death. It”
Donald G. McNeil, Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

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