UBC adjunct medical geography professor Tom Koch wrote about the Zika virus in the Globe and Mail.
“There is nothing truly unusual about Zika virus,” Koch wrote. “At one level, the viruses now afflicting us, like Zika, are the cost of doing business in a global and interconnected world. To stop this or the next virus will require attention first to the health of dense populations of poor people living on the edge of megacities, to migrant worker populations and, as Ebola demonstrated, those who still live in isolated rural areas.”
