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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: hanamizu

I’m concerned about the future. It seems to me that something catastrophic may be in the future.


41 posted on 09/18/2019 2:00:49 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: Pelham

I remember her during the H5N1 scare.


42 posted on 09/18/2019 2:03:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: BenLurkin

Extraordinary site.

And they are out of stock of many of the less-expensive body bags. The Bahamian need must be great.


43 posted on 09/18/2019 2:08:03 PM PDT by Norski
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To: BenLurkin

a little shake down now and then won’t hurt.


44 posted on 09/18/2019 2:10:03 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: BenLurkin

AOC says we have only 11 more years before the End of the World, so the pandemic better hurry up.


45 posted on 09/18/2019 2:11:51 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Vermont Lt

Can you imagine the out cry from the snowflakes...


Maybe that’s why they are snowflakes. We haven’t suffered catastrophe or the potential of catastrophe in most people’s living memory. My dad graduated from high school in 1932—into the teeth of the Depression. The memory of WWI and Spanish flu were part of his parent’s lives. He got 8 years of Depression and then 4 years of WWII before ‘normal’ times returned—which of course included the threat of nuclear war destroying everything. But these people are nearly all gone now and while some of us oldsters remember their stories, those under 50 have no memories of nationwide, worldwide disaster.

Maybe they’ll cope better than they or we think.


46 posted on 09/18/2019 2:16:59 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: MplsSteve

TRUE, = The 1918 Spanish Flu took 3 members of our family.

Yours, TMN78247


47 posted on 09/18/2019 2:17:16 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: BenLurkin

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!!


48 posted on 09/18/2019 2:20:37 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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Where’s the “oh no” gif?


49 posted on 09/18/2019 2:21:18 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: beethovenfan

Over population solved.


50 posted on 09/18/2019 2:29:43 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Pelham; Mother Abigail

Name her, ping her. Who knows? Someday she may return!


51 posted on 09/18/2019 2:31:39 PM PDT by null and void (<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
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To: marktwain

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?


52 posted on 09/18/2019 2:34:14 PM PDT by null and void (<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
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To: BenLurkin

Out of 7 billion? Peanuts.


53 posted on 09/18/2019 2:40:16 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: BenLurkin

Bound to happen eventually. When it does, no one will be talking about progressive issues anymore. Suddenly everyone will have traditional, conservative values.


54 posted on 09/18/2019 2:53:29 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: null and void; grey_whiskers

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.


55 posted on 09/18/2019 2:54:33 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: caww

“Africa isn’t the only stew pot of nasty communicable diseases....”

Memphis is pretty bad, too.


56 posted on 09/18/2019 2:57:39 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Pelham

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.


57 posted on 09/18/2019 2:58:58 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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To: null and void
Please add me to your morbid morbidity list, if I can use this meme.


58 posted on 09/18/2019 3:05:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Mom MD
"How could you possibly prepare for the death of 80 million people?"

Our blue cities/counties/states would ignore that reality while banning paper straws and advertising that they are still sanctuary sites.

59 posted on 09/18/2019 3:08:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Vermont Lt
“Randall Flagg, pick up the white courtesy phone.....”

Wut?
60 posted on 09/18/2019 3:13:06 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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