Stories of measles circumstances in 18 states to date are alerting folks to a possible new, but additionally previous, menace of contagion. Because the U.S. well being system grapples with new outbreaks and the chance of previous ailments making a comeback, we’re trying to the previous to tell how folks in marginalized communities can put together themselves for the way the present administration may deal with an epidemic. On this episode, a dialog with historian and writer Edna Bonhomme, about her newest e-book A Historical past of the World in Six Plagues.