How Pandemics Past And Present Fuel The Rise Of Mega-Corporations – OpEd

By Eleanor Russell and Martin Parker*

In June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms. They started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea. This was followed by painful black lumps, or buboes, growing in the armpits and groin, which gave the disease its name: bubonic plague. The last stage was...