🔆 Key Ideas from The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum 📍 Recurring Pandemics ✅ History repeats itself: From the Spanish Flu (1918, 50M deaths) to COVID-19 (2020, global paralysis). ✅ Human errors: Political denial, scientific arrogance, and misinformation fuel pandemics. 📍 Silent Accelerators ✅ Urbanization, climate change, and global travel accelerate disease spread. ✅ Ebola (2014): Initially dismissed as an "African problem," nearly became a global threat. 📍 Governance Failures ✅ SARS (2002) & COVID-19: Delayed responses due to government cover-ups. ✅ Misinformation & anti-vaccine movements worsen crises. 📍 One Health Approach 🌍 ✅ Solution: Integrating human, animal, and environmental health to prevent future outbreaks. Honigsbaum’s message: Pandemics are not just biological disasters but governance failures—we must act before history repeats again. 🚨 #essay