From Covid to polio, this is how war triggers epidemics

“From the plague to the Spanish flu to cholera and numerous other plagues. If there is one thing that history has taught us, it is that war is a terrifying engine for the spread of infectious diseases.” He is concerned Stefano Vellainfectious disease specialist and professor of Global Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, of what could be the consequences on public health of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.