Thomas Abraham is a a journalist, author and educator based in Bengaluru India. He is the author of Polio The Odyssey of Eradication ( 2018) and Twenty First Century Plague, The Story of SARS. He taught health and science journalism at the University of Hong Kong and has also worked at and consulted for the World Health Organization . He was a full time journalist for 25 years and was Editor of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.