After his recent op-ed piece for The New York Times about mapping the Ebola crisis, Steven Johnson visited the John Snow pub, named after the 19th-century physician who pioneered the field of epidemiology.
John Snow’s maps of a cholera outbreak in 1858 (the subject of Johnson’s early book The Ghost Map ) helped clarify how the disease was transmitted. In this video, Johnson explains how we’re still using the same techniques to map diseases in the 21st century.
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