Posted on 09/18/2019 1:05:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Between 2011 and 2018, WHO tracked 1,483 epidemics worldwide, including Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the report said.
These epidemics and pandemics devastated many of their host countries -- the West Africa Ebola outbreak resulted in a loss of $53 billion in economic and social cost. These huge economic costs translate to severe real-life consequences -- lost jobs, forced displacement, inaccessible healthcare, and greater mortality.
While disease, epidemics, and pandemics have always existed, greater population density and the ability to travel anywhere in the world within 36 hours means disease can spread rapidly through a country and then go worldwide
Poorer countries, especially those without basic primary health care or health infrastructure, are hit the hardest by disease outbreaks. In these places, the problem is often compounded by armed conflict or a deep distrust in health services, as seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been ravaged by an Ebola outbreak for more than a year. Community mistrust has led to violent, sometimes fatal attacks on heath care workers.
Scientific and technological advancements have helped fight these diseases -- but the WHO report warns they can also provide the laboratory environments for new disease-causing microorganisms to be created, increasing the risk of a future global pandemic.
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Disease has been put off, not stopped. I don’t doubt that at some point immune systems in Western countries will be so weak that a variant of a dreaded disease will spread. The miracle is that with all of the displaced people in the world, it hasn’t already happened.
Over the years, I’ve read a few books and articles on the 1918 Spanish flu.
Like some other posters said “We’re overdue” and god help us when it happens.
Perhaps I’m wrong - but even in a highly developed country like ours, I have a hard time seeing our public health infrastructure handling it.
Businesses will shut down. Those who do go out will be wearing facemasks (and those might not even help). Public transportation will grind to a halt. Those shopping malls that are even open will be like ghost towns. grocery stores out of food because everyone is dead, too sick or too scared to make deliveries.
(shudder)
Oh no! We’re all gonna die!
Some Freepers may remember retired CDC scientist ‘Mother Abigail’ who posted here until 2012. Her field was influenza, SARs, Marburg, Ebola, all the fun stuff.
I don’t think that she was trying to scare anyone, but it was her opinion that we are due for a near-extinction event, most likely a hybrid flu. 80 million would be a conservative estimate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:motherabigail/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
Well heck since we’re just making up numbers, why go so low. A pandemic could wipe out 2 billion people. Or we might not get a pandemic. So far, the second bet is holding.
And so another billion in funding needs to be given to WHO right away!
These moochers are so transparent.
A good portion of the world is a sh*thole. Western civilization is rapidly importing their sh*t. We very well may become legend.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! .....once again.....
We’ve only got 9.5 years. Who cares.
I do.
Buy lots of body bags ? ??
“Randall Flagg, pick up the white courtesy phone.....”
But the zombie virus ALWAYS comes out of China.
80 million ? just about the population of Iran....
I aint saying, I’m just saying.
What if it costs just one child's life. Is it worth it?
Hope they don't stop till iSLame is eradicated!
That was on last night!
A very good summation of the ‘Spanish flu’ can be seen here:
It quite possibly started here in the US in Kansas, spread to Europe with the troops, infected soldiers in Europe and when the troops came home infected the world. 1000s died a day here in the US. Almost paradoxically, it tended to hit healthy adults in the prime of life harder than children or geezers.
And yet we did cope and survive as a society. Don’t how we’ll fare with the next one.
Can you imagine the out cry from the snowflakes if ten people died every day in a medium sized city? (It happens during the winter...but no one realizes it.)
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