OUR HISTORY – 06
Artifacts at Large
Tracking Campus Memories
LITERARY GIFTS – 07
Building Archives
The Ian McDonald Papers
NEW DEAN – 18
Humanities andHeather
An Old Hand at the Wheel
Is the spread of the Chikungunya virus a regional crisis or are we panicking unnecessarily?
With virgin populations lacking immunity, the first wave has been widespread, but because it has
not been deemed lethal in the way the Ebola virus has been, it might be more of a wake-up call for the Caribbean region to batten down its hatches and focus more closely on both vector control
and epidemic control as public health priorities. In this special issue of
UWI TODAY
, editor
Vaneisa Baksh
talks to UWI researchers, doctors, economists, and public health officials, sufferers,
and a range of people touched by ChikV to get a sense of what the arrival of this virus means for the region, now and in the future.
(From Pages 9-17)
Our cover image comes from the popular
UWI Fete
, which was well attended and seemed not to be feeling the impact of Chikungunya!
(See Page 23 for more Fete images.)
ChikVMakingMas
JOINT
DEGREE – 20
Doubling up
Sorbonne
and UWI
