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When the Ebola outbreak emerged in 2014 in West Africa, public health officials around the world had early warning signs and predictive tools that showed how that outbreak might spread, but they failed to fathom that it would, and they failed to act in time to intervene, and the epidemic grew to kill more than 11,000 people.
And each new host increases the potential for a full-blown epidemic.
However, predicting the next potential epidemic is a major challenge.
Three out four farmworkers surveyed have been directly impacted by our opioid epidemic.
But those relationships take time to develop, time that is always in short supply when an epidemic breaks out.
We have to redesign our response to this epidemic for the digital age.
As I mentioned earlier, it's a huge epidemic with no treatment.
During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help.
In the SARS epidemic, we learned in Hong Kong that most of transmission was because people were removing their masks improperly.
When he walks outside his souk, walks into a pharmacy for heart medicine that can prevent the blood in his arteries from clotting, he confronts the fact that, despite a growing epidemic that currently accounts for 82 percent of all deaths in Egypt, it is the medicines that can address these conditions that counterfeiters, ever the evil geniuses they are, have decided to target.
Now you have understood the graph and now, in the next 60 seconds, we will play the HIV epidemic in the world.
In the last two to three years, we have reached a steady state of HIV epidemic in the world.
This is an epidemic curve, and everyone in medicine, I think, ultimately gets to know what it is.
But the joke is, an epidemiologist likes to arrive at an epidemic right here and ride to glory on the downhill curve.
What we really want is to arrive right here, so we can stop the epidemic.
The Asian and African Vulture Crisis has led to an epidemic of rabies in India, where infections kill roughly 20,000 people each year.
[Who are the people who should be most concerned about this?] Well, the most concerned are people who are, first of all, in developing countries and who don't have access to good medical care and may not have access at all to a hospital, should an epidemic occur in their country.
And at the same time, learn how we can protect ourselves and protect others should we become a part of that epidemic.
It arrived in London in 1832, and every four or five years another epidemic would take 10,000, 20,000 people in London and throughout the U.K.
There is no such thing as an HIV epidemic in Africa.
It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.
This is the epidemic in Mozambique.
This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.
So slow down, slow down the speed of the epidemic, and then in the troughs, in between waves, jump on, double down, step on it, and find every case, trace every contact, test every case, and then only quarantine the ones who need to be quarantined, and do that until we have a vaccine.
The virus in question was a coronavirus that caused an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003.
If that number is less than one, then fewer than one person is infected by a typical person, and eventually, the epidemic fades away.
So you're infected on the subway, and so for the first three days or so, you're in your latent period, you don't infect your coworkers, you reach your peak infectiousness at home, there will be secondary infections at home, and people with symptoms can self-quarantine, and over the long run, you have a reproduction number less than one, so the epidemic, if you continue these cycles, will go away.
Maybe it's even something you can consider after the epidemic, because productivity can be at least as high.
What I have learned is two things: one, that the epidemic of violence towards women is shocking; it's global; it is so profound and it is so devastating, and it is so in every little pocket of every little crater, of every little society that we don't even recognize it, because it's become ordinary.
It's a hidden epidemic, and most of that abuse actually happens at the hands of close caretakers or family.
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