Posted on 02/15/2018 4:14:17 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreysus, warned the medical community that humanity is not ready, and is, therefore, vulnerable to a pandemic.
The next outbreak, he said, will have terrible consequences for both the population and the economies of many countries.
At the same time, he did not specify what disease or infection should be expected.
The latest fears of a pandemic emerged after the violent outbreaks of influenza in recent years.
But most of all, the medical community was shocked at...
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At this point I wouldn’t mind being in that group. This planet is at full speed crazy and only getting worse.
Will that be good for Glabal Worming?
At the same time, he did not specify what disease or infection should be expected.
The fact is that a lethal pandemic that could sweep the world has always been possible and always will be possible. Mankind will never really be prepared for it.
no kidding
That'll give those nasty bacteria and viruses what they deserve!
I think I read this on some other threads, but it makes sense. If not already, soon the evil globalists will be in possession of a fountain of youth type of drug. There will be a population of superior “eternals” lwho will see to it that the mortal populations are kept in check. A holes like George Soros and John McCain are going to be living for hundreds and hundreds of years.
The scare merchants sell drugs, vaccines, insurance, and books. Don’t buy into it, folks!
12 monkeys
The threat is real.
If there is an effective vaccination against a disease, the chance of it causing a pandemic is pretty slim. But many diseases have no vaccines, and vaccines cannot protect against a newly emerged disease.
Influenza is a big fear. Because of the way it spreads through droplets, and its high infectivity, it has the characteristics it needs to become a pandemic. Influenza also mutates very rapidly, and new influenza viruses emerge all the time. Influenza vaccines can only work against viruses we’ve already identified—they could be useless against a new strain of influenza.
Influenza is not the only pathogen that is pandemic capable. The black death that ravaged Europe also transmitted very easily through droplets. Luckily, the pathogen, Yersinia pestis, is susceptible to antibiotics so most plague victims survive.
Ebola, for all the hype about it during the 2014 outbreak, is not capable of causing a pandemic. It is a blood borne pathogen, which makes it not a pandemic threat.
We do not and cannot know which new pandemic capable pathogens might emerge. So a pandemic remains a very real possibility.
I wonder if the victims of the 1918 epidemic were asking similar questions.
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My 26 year old Grandmother died in that pandemic when my Dad was 3 months old. My Dad told me that it hit them before they realized how serious it was. But that was in the early stages of the pandemic.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
The fact is that a lethal pandemic that could sweep the world has always been possible and always will be possible. Mankind will never really be prepared for it.
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Thread winner!
in their dreams they want a whole bunch of us dead.
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But discovering that particular protein has be elusive.
There are parts of the influenza virus that are relatively unchanging. The hemagglutinin protein--the "H" part in the influenza virus name--has domains that are almost invariant. However, those domains are invisible to the immune system. The structure of those domains makes them very slippery, so there is not much for a B or T cell to grab on to. For this reason, they are not antigenic--they do not induce an immune response in the form of specific antibodies. The parts of the hemagglutinin that are antigenic and cause a good immune response are also the same domains that change from year to year. So even though the vaccine always works, in that it always produces a good immune response, the immunity might be against a virus that does not even exist any more.
Many of the researchers trying to make a universal flu vaccine try to target the invariant domains of the hemagglutinin--but they have had little luck.
Other influenza virus proteins are mostly conserved, but they are shielded inside the virion where the immune system cannot detect them. The killed virus vaccines probably induce immunity against those proteins, too, but that immunity is useless, since the antibodies would not "see" those proteins in a circulating virus.
Wow!
Thanks for the much better explanation of my thought.
You’re welcome!
This is nothing but a distraction from all those asteroids out there.
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