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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2016/02/16/from-cholera-to-zika-what-historys-pandemics-tell-us-about-the-next-contagion/</font></div>

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<p style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.9125px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cholera is one of the history’s most successful pandemic-causing pathogens. The first cholera pandemic began in the Sundarbans in present-day Bangladesh in 1817. Since then, it has ravaged the planet in no fewer than seven pandemics, the latest of which is currently smoldering just a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida, <a href="http://choleramap.pulitzercenter.org/" target="_blank" style=" border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">in Haiti.</a></font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cholera first perfected the art of pandemics by exploiting the rapid changes in transportation, trade, and demography unleashed by the dawn of the factory age. New, fast-moving transatlantic clipper ships and sailing packets, which moved millions of Europeans into North America, brought cholera to the New World in 1832. Thanks to the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the bacterial pathogen easily spread throughout the country, including into the canal’s southern terminus, New York City, which suffered repeated cholera epidemics over the course of decades.</font></p>

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<p class="wp-caption-text" style=" border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 5px 40px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The spread of cholera after the opening of the Erie Canal.</font></p>

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<p style=" border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.9125px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cholera was well-poised to exploit the filth of 19<span style=" border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; bottom: 1ex;">th</span>-century cities. The pathogen spreads through contaminated human waste. And outhouses, privies, and cesspools covered about 1/12 of New York City, none of which were serviced by sewer systems and few of which were ever emptied. (Those that were had their untreated contents unceremoniously dumped into the Hudson or East Rivers.) The contents of countless privies and cesspools spilled out into the streets, leaked into the city’s shallow street-corner wells, and trickled into the groundwater.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Even those who enjoyed piped water were vulnerable to the contagion. The company chartered by New York State to deliver drinking water to the city’s residents—the Manhattan Company, which started a bank now known as JPMorgan Chase—dug their well among the tenements of the notoriously crowded Five Points slum, in what is today part of Chinatown. They delivered the slum’s undoubtedly contaminated groundwater to one third of the city’s residents.</font></p>

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<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0308/JPMorgan-moves-to-divest-from-coal-at-least-partly">http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0308/JPMorgan-moves-to-divest-from-coal-at-least-partly</a>

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<div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/matt-taibbi-and-bank-whistleblower-how-jpmorgan-chase-helped-wreck-economy-and-avoid-prosecution"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.alternet.org/matt-taibbi-and-bank-whistleblower-how-jpmorgan-chase-helped-wreck-economy-and-avoid-prosecution</font></a></div>

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<div class="story-date" style=" float: left; line-height: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-11-07T09:59:00-08:00">ovember 7, 2014</span></span></span></span> </em> |  </font></div>

<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 25px;"><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following is a transcript of a Democracy Now! segment. </font></em>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JUAN GONZÁLEZ: A year ago this month, the Justice Department announced the banking giant JPMorgan Chase would avoid criminal charges by agreeing to pay $13 billion to settle claims that it had routinely overstated the quality of mortgages it was selling to investors. When the toxic mortgage securities started turning bad, investors lost faith in the banking system, and a housing crisis turned into the 2008 financial crisis that led to millions of home foreclosures. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled the settlement last November.</font></p>

<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN:Not only will Chase have to pay the largest settlement ever levied against a financial institution, but it has admitted in our statement of facts that its own employees, employees of Bear Stearns and employees of Washington Mutual made material misrepresentations to the investing public about a large number of residential mortgage-backed securities that they issued prior to the crash in 2008. This settlement is a major victory in the fight to hold accountable those who were responsible for that crash....</font></p>

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