Flotsam of Never-Ending Respiratory Pathogens

This month’s cover image Flotsam Allagash is an example of one of those landscapes. The painting situates the viewer on the bank of the wild, scenic Allagash River traversing Maine’s northwestern forest, once used by a flourishing lumber industry as a commercial waterway. “Flotsam,” defined as waste...

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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2022-11, Vol.28 (11), p.2361-2362
Main Authors: Gensheimer, Kathleen, Breedlove, Byron
Format: Article
Language:English
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About the Cover
art and medicine
Art galleries & museums
art science connection
Artists
Bacterial pneumonia
Deaths
Disease control
Disease prevention
emerging infectious diseases
Flotsam
Flotsam Allagash
Flotsam of Never-Ending Respiratory Pathogens
Forecasts and trends
Health aspects
Influenza
Logging
Lumber
Lumber industry
Neil Welliver
Painters
Paints
Pathogens
Pneumonia
Rivers
Volcanoes
Watercolor painting
Works
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Summary:This month’s cover image Flotsam Allagash is an example of one of those landscapes. The painting situates the viewer on the bank of the wild, scenic Allagash River traversing Maine’s northwestern forest, once used by a flourishing lumber industry as a commercial waterway. “Flotsam,” defined as waste or debris regarded as worthless, describes the old, abandoned logging and lumber equipment scattered throughout the woods and on river’s shore. A twisted, broken stump looms like a dormant volcano, roots splayed and twisted, heaved up on the mud. According to Weber, “His belief was that ‘If you give yourself to a place, you begin to feel its power.’”
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2811.AC2811