What Is Jeffrey Goldberg's 'Microbes On The Move'

In his article, “Microbes on the Move,” Goldberg writes his personal story of himself visiting East Africa to hike on a mountain. While on a mountain, he got bitten by mosquitoes with malaria and fell unconscious from severe headache. The park ranger found him and carried him to the local town doctor for immediate treatment. Goldberg managed to survive. In the remaining part of Goldberg’s article, there is other story about Stephen Ostroff, the Disease Control Centers deputy director, telling that America will contain malaria by 2009 if no one establish a strong global system of disease prevention right now in 1999. Goldberg’s article was important in 1999 because it was published as a warning sign in the wake of first case of malaria in New

It was featured in print on thousands of New York Times magazines that were circulating within the city of New York. It was intended to warn or educate many readers as possible about the forthcoming of malaria from Africa. It tried to reach its target audience such as potential malaria victims of New York, people who had been ignoring the “warning shots,” people who assumed that the American Disease Prevention Center can zap malaria easily, and people who frequently visited Africa and returned back to their original countries. Jeffrey Goldberg, an investigative journalist for the New York Times magazines, was motivated to produce this “Microbes on the Move” article for remembering his near-death experience with malaria in East Africa in 1995 by the time he heard the news of malaria outbreak in New York in 1999. To persuade these people into thinking that they can catch malaria any sooner, Goldberg uses his personal narrative, non-fictional story and several stories about contagious viruses in his article and adds literacy devices like simile, amplification, flashback and foreshadowing to them. He then forms his opinion to the stories in his editorial, urging for a global system of disease surveillance to be