Edna Bonhomme

4 weeks ago | lrb.co.uk | Edna Bonhomme

Ebola is a frightening disease. It spreads from person to person through contact with bodily fluids, and symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. It has an average fatality rate of 50 per cent if left untreated. (Covid-19 has a crude fatality rate of 2.7 per cent.)First detected in 1976 in a village near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as Zaire), the disease is believed to have a zoonotic origin (probably fruit bats).

1 month ago | bigissue.com | Edna Bonhomme

Health A History of the World in Six Plagues explores the historical, philosophical and psychological events that arise when people endure an epidemic by: Edna Bonhomme Few people like to be confined, and even fewer like to be captive when there is an outbreak. In the spring of 2020, people in lockdown worldwide slid into paralysis when the threat of a new virus halted society.

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Edna Bonhomme

When I decided to move from Brooklyn to Berlin in 2017, I was attracted by the prospect of a medical system that would protect me from debt and premature death. Like  of people living in Germany, I have statutory health insurance, which means that when I had major abdominal surgery in 2022 I did not have any additional copays for my procedure or two-night hospital stay.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Edna Bonhomme

Books & the Arts / April 9, 2025 Pain and Pleasure Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Roman Epic In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. Ad Policy A depiction of Herod the Great. (Getty) This article appears in the May 2025 issue. The first time I felt betrayed was when I was 11. The culprit: my younger sister.

Mar 24, 2025 | lithub.com | Edna Bonhomme

I had a little birdIts name was EnzaI opened the window,And in-flu-enza. –1918 children’s rhyme*Article continues after advertisementIt was a web, a net, spreading wide and enmeshing every sort of cousin and dependant and old retainer. –Virginia Woolf (“On Being Ill,” 326 version)*During the early morning of March 4, 1918, three men in Kansas dipped into an acute fever, forcing them to step away from their military duties. Stationed at Camp Funston, private Albert Gitchell, Corporal Lee W.