Melissa Shepherd

“Such pervasive and violent opposition to the city’s public health program prevented the plan from being implemented as every municipal initiative provoked a violent backlash and drove Naples to a state of near anarchy. The Times of London commented that the port was afflicted with something worse than cholera—“medieval ignorance and superstition.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“Zhang’s journey, which is worthy of a book of its own, is one of those classic immigration tales that has made America great. He was born in 1981 in Shijiazhuang,”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Echoing Fleming’s warning, theorists of emerging diseases argue that antibiotics are a “nonrenewable resource” whose duration of efficacy is biologically limited.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime