![]() ![]() “My big worry right now is that we’re going to have warehouses full of masks, and the next pandemic won’t be airborne - it’s going to be carried by a bug,” Levy says. Levy, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, has heard versions of this story from Philadelphians - some much more haunting - dozens of times.Īfter nearly 20 years researching the intersection of ecology, public health, and urban policy, Levy understands, better than most, how infectious disease outbreaks happen - and that we’re not doing enough to prevent them. You lie awake at night, fearing that the parasites are hiding in the cracks of your floorboards, waiting to make their return. Months later, your building is finally declared “bedbug-free.” Still, the scars have not yet faded on your skin. While lugging trash bags of clothes to the laundromat, you unknowingly spread the pests to a neighbor. Your landlord refuses to foot the $800 exterminator bill, so you dip into your savings to cover the treatment. You squish one and watch your own blood spatter from its abdomen. ![]() One month later, you find a handful of bedbugs - flat and brown like apple seeds - burrowed in a crevice of your box spring. But then, you wake up scratching a line of itchy bites across your torso. You notice two pink bumps on your ankle, and then another, on your wrist. Can he prevent an outbreak in Philadelphia? ![]() Levy curbed a Chagas disease epidemic in Arequipa, Peru. ![]()
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