National Geographic - USA (2020-08)

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64 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Germ theory changes everything For 200 years, a gathering chorus of voices raised tentative versions of t ...

65 IN THE LATE 1800S, PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW PRINGLE USED A MICROSCOPE TO CAPTURE IMAGES OF TUBERCULOSIS, ANTHRAX, AND OTHER BACTER ...

66 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Pasteur was an enthusiastic self-promoter. (Some modern historians say he also appro- priated other peopl ...

67 Desperately ill, Albert Alexander, a middle-aged police officer, lay in an Oxford, England, infirmary. It had started with a ...

IN FOCUS Ebola Since 1976, when it first emerged in Sudan and near the Ebola River in what is now the Demo- cratic Republic of t ...

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70 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By the time infectious disease specialist Michael Callahan climbed aboard the Grand Princess in early Mar ...

STOPPING PANDEMICS 71 N95 masks are decontaminated inside a new system that allows single-use items to be reused safely. Develop ...

72 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC His subsequent experience with Ebola and other outbreaks in West Africa also taught him that treating one ...

STOPPING PANDEMICS 73 A coffin holding the body of a foreigner who died during the COVID -19 pandemic is stored in a mortuary in ...

A 2 ,400-MILE TREK ACROSS INDIA REVEALS THE MYSTICAL LURE OF ITS SACRED RIVERS—AND A CRISIS THAT THREATENS A WAY OF LIFE. WATER ...

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The Guru Nanak Dev coal-burning power plant in Bathinda, Punjab, shut down in 2 017 after 43 years. It helped power the state’s ...

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Homes, temples, and narrow alleyways in Varanasi’s Old Quarter are demolished for a beautification project that will give pilgri ...

IT IS THE VILLAGERS OF RAJASTHAN. They watch us pass in the hot light of the Thar Desert. We are unwashed, covered in coarse dus ...

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