Ebola and beyond. If you have any noisemaking devices, if you could take a moment and just silence them now. Sonia will read for about half an hour and then take as many of your questions we can fit into 20 minutes and then sign books afterwards. We encourage questions, but need you to use actually the one microphone thats here on the right by the pillar, so that everyone can be involved in the conversation and also for our cspan audience. After the event is over, great help if you fold up your chair and place it against a bookshelf, and it will be time for the book signing, and the books are for sale where you walked in. Sonia shah is an investigative author whose work has appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal, scientific american, among others. Her books include crude, the story of oil, body hunters, testing new drugs on the worlds poorest patients and the fever, how malaria has ruled human kind for 5000 years. In tonights book, pandemic, she discusses history inclu
1833 in 1834, a global pandemic. Affecting millions of people. What wasnt and what were its symptoms . What was the prognosis if you have cholera . You would not want to get it. It is a bacterial disease that spread through the water, through contaminated water. It quickly inc. Abates in the body and create massive diarrhea. Within six hours one will lose massive amounts of fluid. The body would go into spasms and turn blue. That was a telltale sign. The organs start to shut down with massive dehydration. The body turns blue and death could ensue in six hours from the beginning of the disease. Not every one died. But it was devastating and deadly. The symptoms were telling. Some people knew what it was. Where there treatments . The way we would treat it today would be rehydration. And there are and got x. Antibiotics. But in the 1830s never he understood that. They did not understand the body losing water and dehydration. Haram medicine was resorted to. Doses of mercury, opium, even bl
All of us are working very hard every day in our states to spur economic growth, and to build lasting Career Pathways that put more people to work in goodpaying jobs. Its more important than ever that we Work Together to find new ways to build a steady pipeline for the future, using Economic Development models, Infrastructure Projects, and talented welltrained and wellskilled workers. The governors obviously play a key role in these efforts. Many of the governors here today have shown tremendous leadership in this area, and its at the state level that bold ideas are being developed, and relate solutions are being forged. So to lead todays next panel, it is my privilege to introduce the vice chair of the nga, the governor of the great state of new york, andrew cuomo, who will tell us a little bit about the progress hes making in new york, and then lead the next panel discussion. Please welcome Governor Cuomo. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon. Before i get started, lets give a grea
Galleries. It is literally a walkthrough you come to the museum. It is at the end of the ice age. We talk about the first Indigenous Peoples lived here and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit the first peoples. It talks about the Indigenous People who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans. It is one we just recently renovated. The first is this mural that is painted. It shows the story of the anishinaabek people through four seasons. One of the things it tells is the advanced society they had before europeans arrived. It was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They engaged, spends a lot of their time really working in harmony with the lands to meet all their basic needs. In this mural, things to point out is the structures. There are a lot of concessions that nativetions americans all lived in teepees. In michigan, they lived in structu
Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of Cleveland Akron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio, and so man came and continued coming until today nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigatable stream, a water supply and as a suewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga. With us is the professor of history with the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned. Physically, where are you located and explain what happens 50 years ago this month. Hi, steve, thanks for having me. We are sitting at the near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the can cuyahoga reaches lake erie. But