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Pandemic could kill up to 80 million people -- and the world isn't ready, experts say
KCCI ^ | 09/18/2019

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 201909; 80million; disease; ebola; epidemic; health; pandemic; prepper; preppers; sars; viruses; who
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To: BenLurkin

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.


21 posted on 09/18/2019 1:29:51 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: Secret Agent Man
they are short about 3.5 billion or so.

That's why I don't understand Pakistan's nuke program. Say they launch a first strike against India and kill 100 million people. Ten minutes later the remaining 1.2 billion of them are coming over the hill to kick their a*s.


22 posted on 09/18/2019 1:30:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: BenLurkin

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)


23 posted on 09/18/2019 1:34:53 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: BenLurkin

Oh no! We’re all gonna die!


24 posted on 09/18/2019 1:35:07 PM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: BenLurkin

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


25 posted on 09/18/2019 1:35:50 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


26 posted on 09/18/2019 1:36:32 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: BenLurkin

And so another billion in funding needs to be given to WHO right away!

These moochers are so transparent.


27 posted on 09/18/2019 1:38:40 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin

A good portion of the world is a sh*thole. Western civilization is rapidly importing their sh*t. We very well may become legend.


28 posted on 09/18/2019 1:38:56 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BenLurkin

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! .....once again.....


29 posted on 09/18/2019 1:39:54 PM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: BenLurkin

We’ve only got 9.5 years. Who cares.


30 posted on 09/18/2019 1:43:18 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: CodeJockey

I do.


31 posted on 09/18/2019 1:45:21 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mom MD

Buy lots of body bags ? ??


32 posted on 09/18/2019 1:50:04 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: BenLurkin

“Randall Flagg, pick up the white courtesy phone.....”


33 posted on 09/18/2019 1:50:22 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

But the zombie virus ALWAYS comes out of China.


34 posted on 09/18/2019 1:51:10 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

80 million ? just about the population of Iran....

I aint saying, I’m just saying.


35 posted on 09/18/2019 1:54:52 PM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: null and void
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

What if it costs just one child's life. Is it worth it?

36 posted on 09/18/2019 1:55:49 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"Ten minutes later the remaining 1.2 billion of them are coming over the hill to kick their a*s. "

Hope they don't stop till iSLame is eradicated!

37 posted on 09/18/2019 1:56:34 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: BenLurkin

That was on last night!


38 posted on 09/18/2019 1:56:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MplsSteve

A very good summation of the ‘Spanish flu’ can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls&list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG&index=2&frags=pl%2Cwn

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.


39 posted on 09/18/2019 1:57:07 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

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.)


40 posted on 09/18/2019 2:00:18 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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