Annie Sparrow

Health Care Under Fire

The fight to protect medical and humanitarian workers is not new, but we are running out of time before it becomes futile.

Ebola in Africa: What We’re Getting Wrong

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

The Epidemics on the Way

Sonia Shah’s ‘Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond’

Poison Gas

Syria: Death from Assad’s Chlorine

On the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon

The Epidemic in Syria

On the humanitarian consequences of Syria’s brutal war

Fighting Polio in Syria

In response to Annie Sparrow's recent article on the public health crisis in Syria and in particular the threat of polio, The New York Review has received the following statement from Save the Children-UK. A reply by Sparrow is posted beneath the statement.

Syria: The Other Threat

The threat of epidemics spreading from Syria to surrounding countries has grown with frightening speed. Now polio has spilled across the border into Iraq.

The Truth About Polio in Syria

The Hidden Polio Epidemic in Syria

The health catastrophe that has struck Syrian children

Syria’s Assault on Doctors

Bashar al-Assad’s counterinsurgency strategy appears to be deliberately targeting the civilian population and medical facilities in rebel areas, in order to deprive the armed opposition of its support.