Five Who Spread Hope in 2019 [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/8/207:57 AM

By Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times, December 17, 2019

O.K., so Time magazine has Greta Thunberg. But many other individuals also changed the world for the better in 2019. Here, for a second year, is a list of five whose contributions Fixes wrote about.

Scott O’Neill fights tropical disease.

“People who understand dengue and live in transmission areas are horrified and scared.”

There’s a new weapon in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.

Before 1970, only nine countries had experienced severe epidemics of dengue fever. Now, the disease is endemic in 100 countries, infects 400 million people a year and is intensifying rapidly.

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