![]() ![]() Gladwell says that the disaster was caused by three important factors: the infectious agent, the people who spread it, and the environment where the epidemic is happening.ĬHAPTER 2. ![]() At first, diseases like syphilis only happened in one place and stayed there. Other experts, like John Potterat, think that the sharp rise of the epidemic was caused by physical changes in West and East Baltimore. Some experts think that the outbreak was caused by a drop in medical services in some poor neighborhoods in the middle of Baltimore. In order to try to figure out why there is so much syphilis in Baltimore, the author uses several other theories. ![]() In this chapter, Gladwell gives reasons why the situation could have become an epidemic instead of just a small problem. The book starts with a story about a syphilis outbreak in the 1990s that affected a lot of children. ![]()
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