A recent documentary on TV said if there is a worldwide pandemic the developed countries will be the worst hit due to the huge amount of travelers easily passing on the disease at airports.
3rd world, rural nations with limited travel will in many cases survive unscathed.
Cholera is a disease that rarely travels because people quickly feel awful.
A pandemic would have a long incubation period during which people still felt fine but were shedding germs all over the place.
The Spanish Flu had a incubation period of 2 to 7 days rather then the 1 to 4 which is the normal flu. That does not sound like a great deal but it gave it almost twice as long to spread.
Nah, we’re safe. According to Daily Mail:
“just 13 countries had the resources to put up a fight against an ‘inevitable’ pandemic...Among the countries ranked in the top tier were Britain, the US, Australia, Canada, France and Holland.”
We had that with Ebola. The government wouldn’t stop international flights from a country with a pandemic where infections killed 70%+ of the infected ... so an exposed guy was able to get on a plane to visit kin in Dallas and spread it to a hospital here.