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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; Tilted Irish Kilt; Kartographer; null and void

Dunno how one can prepare for a piece of sh*t like an Ebola pandemic, but maybe start by BLOAT, for gun owners and enthusiasts.


81 posted on 09/18/2019 4:13:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Wreak

And Africa just finds ways to kill you.

Let Africa Sink
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/


82 posted on 09/18/2019 4:23:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Africa has airports. Jets will be a disease vector that rivals the mosquito.


83 posted on 09/18/2019 4:25:29 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: hanamizu

‘Spanish flu’

If I remember correctly, this is the same as the Swine Flu of the 1970s which was gonna kill us ALL!. I believe ONE MAN did come down with the Swine Flu back then, and every reporter beat a trail to his door for an interview. More people died, standing in line for the shot, from old age than the flu.


84 posted on 09/18/2019 4:26:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Buckeye McFrog; beethovenfan

Ever hear about the Georgia Guidestones, and the inscriptions thereon?

I still think it was Ted Turner.

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones


85 posted on 09/18/2019 4:27:01 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Norski

Tons of reporting on Trump’s Sharpie use, but very little reporting from our Leftist Media on the scale of destruction in the Bahamas.


86 posted on 09/18/2019 4:31:26 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

The world is very overpopulated. Nature has ways of dealing with that problem.

Just wait about 30-50 years or so when most bacteria is resistant to our antibiotics.


87 posted on 09/18/2019 4:32:08 PM PDT by david1292
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To: mykroar
Here you go:


88 posted on 09/18/2019 4:34:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Pelham

There was a recent article here about the TSA having open positions for Ebola screeners.

Found it.

Preparations Quietly Made to Screen for Ebola at US Airports (8-19-19)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3776326/posts


89 posted on 09/18/2019 4:42:29 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

The US only has 9 beds for diseases such as Ebola.


90 posted on 09/18/2019 4:46:00 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Thing is, despite the false alarms, influenza can kill, and if a strain hits that most don’t have some immunity against, the death toll can get big very quickly. The YouTube I referred to earlier offers one explanation why the flue of 1918 was so deadly and why it seem to overly affect people in their 20s and 30s.

I know that some diseases that are now ‘contained’ still are difficult to treat—smallpox being a glaring example. Anyway, if you haven’t seen it before check out:

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


91 posted on 09/18/2019 4:48:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: FreedomPoster

Ebola is scary but it isn’t nearly as easy to pass along as influenza. I wouldn’t want to be the Ebola screener all the same...


92 posted on 09/18/2019 4:49:03 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: BenLurkin

“and the world isn’t ready”

It’s ready if after the pandemic at least one fertile male and female remain — hopefully neither being gay.


93 posted on 09/18/2019 4:54:32 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: BenLurkin
"Buy in bulk?"

It's known as the economics of scale...

94 posted on 09/18/2019 5:25:00 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Pelham
We were discussing the SARS virus and the origin. I suspected a fruit bat virus before it was identified as a Coronavirus from a Civet Cat variant. The fruit bat viruses have killed horses and humans in hours.
95 posted on 09/18/2019 6:15:06 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

So it the current theory that Civet cats are the Ebola reservoir rather than fruit bats?


96 posted on 09/18/2019 6:31:32 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham

OMG

The coffee!


97 posted on 09/18/2019 6:34:45 PM PDT by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: Califreak

exactly what I was thinking...


98 posted on 09/18/2019 6:44:03 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham
I remember the discussion was about the SARS virus and its origin which turned out that the reservoir was in the Civet cat. The discussion wasn't about Ebolavirus of the filoviradae which is believed to be carried by the fruitbats as is Marburg and Lassa. However the discussion did suspect a morbillivirus of the Paramyxoviridae that affected horses and humans and carried by the fruit bat in Australia. We suspected it first because of the respiratory component of SARS. Mother Abigail's discussion was prompted by the SARS breakout and was investigated by a researcher because the discussions were appropriate and very close to the truth.
99 posted on 09/18/2019 10:44:20 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease Ping & Preppers
USA and the world are ill prepared for a pandemic

I have been offline for the last couple of days with family issues,
so this posting and comments got by me.
Check out the OP and posted comments for information and individual thoughts.
This article is not about "chicken little and the sky is falling"
but rather about awareness of possibility, and reality of health services being overwhelmed.

Hat Tip to TSR, Ben Lurkin, and Nullie !
Much appreciated !

100 posted on 09/20/2019 7:19:37 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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