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Why not just keep the fledgling epidemic under wraps and hope that it goes away without the world ever knowing?
When the SARS epidemic broke out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the magnitude of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.
Even after the epidemic appeared in Hong Kong and then spread to Beijing, officials continued to withhold information.
But if the SARS epidemic exposed the retro side of China's approach to involvement in global affairs, China has shown its newer, more cosmopolitan and internationalist side by hosting the three-way discussion between America, North Korea, and China.
The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlighted the urgent need for stronger, more efficient, and more resilient health-care systems in developing countries.
The only other time it has happened in recent decades was in Russia after the collapse of communism, and in Africa after the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Bubbles without MarketsNEW HAVEN - A speculative bubble is a social epidemic whose contagion is mediated by price movements.
However, as the SARS epidemic flared up in 2003, Dr. Jiang realized in April that Health Ministry reports of only 19 confirmed cases of the disease in Beijing were bogus - he knew of almost ten times that amount.
His exposé of the SARS epidemic cover-up forced China's government to confront the disease more openly and aggressively, averting a public health catastrophe.
Dr. Jiang Yanyong may become a millionaire, wear any clothes he likes, redecorate his living room, even buy a car, but he cannot inform the public about an epidemic or write government officials an honest letter of admonition.
Kim and I worked closely together from 2000 to 2005, to scale up the world’s response to the AIDS epidemic.
In the project RethinkHIV, the Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation asked 30 of the world’s top HIV economists, supported by epidemiologists, demographers, and medical professionals, to analyze the most promising responses to the epidemic in the world’s worst-hit region, sub-Saharan Africa.
This is clearly a longer-term response to the epidemic: research by Dean Jamison and Robert Hecht for RethinkHIV suggests that we are about 20 years away from large-scale vaccination, and that increasing current funding by around 10%, or $100 million a year, would meaningfully shorten that projection.
This would save millions of lives and potentially end the epidemic in the long run, while dramatically improving scientific understanding of the disease in the near term.
As a shorter-term response to the epidemic, the Nobel laureates were convinced by research by the economist Lori Bollinger that we could practically wipe out mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015 with additional expenditures of just $140 million a year.
As a result, even after the epidemic has passed, survivors will continue to struggle.
Maybe the ALS Association, which sponsored the Ice Bucket Challenge, would consider allocating a proportion of its money to help the effort to end the Ebola epidemic.
Uganda was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic.
South Africa, with the largest number of people living with HIV, has spent nearly $1 billion over the past year in an ambitious counseling and testing campaign to roll back the epidemic.
The mounting death toll from the US opioid epidemic suggests that America’s drug problem is no less serious – and possibly more so – than that of the Philippines.
In contrast to unexpected, rapidly spreading outbreaks such as the Zika epidemic, antimicrobial resistance is like a slow-motion car crash that has already begun.
A market boom, once started, can continue for a while as a sort of social epidemic, and can foster inspiring “new era” stories that are spread by news media and word of mouth.
We have seen how financial engineering in the United States can determine economic growth in every part of the world; how carbon-dioxide emissions from China end up influencing crop yields and livelihoods in Vietnam, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and beyond; how an epidemic in Mexico endangers the rhythm of public life in the US; or how volcanic ash from Iceland affects travel across Europe.
South Africa’s internal problems, most notably the upsurge in the AIDS epidemic, have been well documented since the ANC came to power more than ten years ago, but the country’s stance as a player within the international community has been less obvious.
BSE occurred as an epidemic in the UK after its identification in 1986, and several million BSE-infected cattle are likely to have entered the human food chain between 1980 and 1996.
In the UK, however, the epidemic of variant CJD seems to have peaked in 2000 and is now in decline, with 156 cases being identified so far.
If the epidemic were in decline, it might be anticipated that the average age of the patients would increase in the final stages (as occurred with cattle in the UK that were infected with BSE).
Special programs to induce prostitutes to use condoms have helped to reverse the epidemic in Thailand; similar approaches are needed in Africa.
Suffering continues even in parts of the country where peace has been restored, manifested in the epidemic of sexual violence, much of it committed by former combatants, that has swept the country.
The current epidemic of ideology, in which advisory committees are shut down and reassembled with new members, and candidates are subjected to loyalty tests, seems old hat to some observers.
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