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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I’m concerned about the future. It seems to me that something catastrophic may be in the future.
I remember her during the H5N1 scare.
Extraordinary site.
And they are out of stock of many of the less-expensive body bags. The Bahamian need must be great.
a little shake down now and then won’t hurt.
AOC says we have only 11 more years before the End of the World, so the pandemic better hurry up.
Can you imagine the out cry from the snowflakes...
Maybe they’ll cope better than they or we think.
TRUE, = The 1918 Spanish Flu took 3 members of our family.
Yours, TMN78247
Nothing the many Clinton Foundation Initiatives couldn’t take care of. Only one problem - you’d have to get them to let go of some of their millions/billions (?). Their many websites promised to save the world!! I think the only thing their money goes to is to their pockets and to keep the glossy/lofty websites going!!
Where’s the “oh no” gif?
Over population solved.
Name her, ping her. Who knows? Someday she may return!
I’m at a loss to see how keeping sick people away from children costs children’s lives. Are you perhaps engaging in an attempt at liberal logic?
Out of 7 billion? Peanuts.
Bound to happen eventually. When it does, no one will be talking about progressive issues anymore. Suddenly everyone will have traditional, conservative values.
I think I first ran across her on a thread devoted to tracking the flu. Probably swine or avian flu, those are the ones that will be the most deadly. You got the idea from her posting that she wasn’t just a casual observer.
At some point she went on to discuss Ebola. IIRC she told us that the reservoir animal was going to be fruit bats well before that fact hit the news. I’m pretty sure that she also mentioned the particular cave that the CDC had been focusing on. Convinced me that she was the real deal.
“Africa isn’t the only stew pot of nasty communicable diseases....”
Memphis is pretty bad, too.
I remember those threads.
There were other CDC and related researchers during a Marburg outbreak that did not behave, and a rather nasty flu outbreak.
With Just in Time inventories, the West can barely handle seasonal storms, let alone a multi month disruptive event.
Our blue cities/counties/states would ignore that reality while banning paper straws and advertising that they are still sanctuary sites.
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