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But advanced nations, too, can fall victim to surprise attack--as happened last year when the first
outbreak
of West Nile virus in North America killed seven New Yorkers.
Many people realistically feared the
outbreak
of World War III – and with good reason, according to many historians.
Before the
outbreak
of World War I in August 1914, the pound sterling served as the currency of choice for international transactions, just as the dollar does today, and the world’s borrowers visited the City of London to raise capital.
Britain maintained the pound’s convertibility into gold at the
outbreak
of the Great War to preserve its credibility as the international medium of exchange.
While a broad and abrupt sell-off by major foreign holders of dollars – for example, China – appears unlikely, a cataclysmic event, similar to the
outbreak
of the Great War in 1914, could prompt a search for a new international medium of exchange.
The new terminology inspired by the information technology revolution was especially prevalent after the SARS
outbreak
last spring, when the government covered up the epidemic until after it had spread throughout China and beyond.
The
outbreak
is known as the Justinianic plague, and, like the Black Death, it cut a swath of destruction from inner Asia to the shores of the Atlantic in the space of a few years.
Human expansion helped rodents prosper, and rat infestations, in turn, intensified and prolonged the plague’s
outbreak.
An
outbreak
could easily be contained in both groups of countries.
While exit controls are in place in all of the international airports in the affected regions, the virus’s incubation period (which averages eight days in the current
outbreak
but can be up to 21 days) means that someone with no symptoms from a recent infection could make the trip to India without triggering alarms.
The Diarrhea PioneersPALO ALTO – On top of the devastation caused in Haiti by the January earthquake, Hurricane Tomas this month, and the subsequent dislocations, exposure, and malnutrition, the country is now experiencing an accelerating cholera
outbreak.
Whether this
outbreak
of nationalism will end soon depends on the willingness of governments in the region – not just China’s – to take a stand and appeal to their publics to cease and desist.
Then, starting in 1914, he witnessed Europe’s collapse into World War I, followed by revolutionary convulsions, the Great Depression, the rise of Stalinism, and finally the barbarism of Nazism and the
outbreak
of World War II.
The Middle East will continue its slide into mayhem – perversely befitting the upcoming centenary of World War I’s
outbreak.
We need only to recall the spiral of hubris and miscalculation that led to the
outbreak
of World War I, a century ago this year.
As we look back in this centennial year toward the
outbreak
of WWI, we see again and again that the only possible route to safety is international law, upheld by the United Nations and respected on all sides.
The Return of Yellow FeverSEATTLE – Before the horrors of the latest Ebola
outbreak
in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health risk, and is now occupying researchers and doctors in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
But to end the outbreak, vaccination has to continue not only in Luanda, where an additional 1.5 million are at risk of infection, but also encompass other affected provinces.
An
outbreak
in a region like Asia, which lacks experience with a yellow fever epidemic and has no capacity to manufacture the vaccine, would be particularly difficult to control.
The WHO is working closely with several partners and the Angolan government to combat the current
outbreak.
The Ebola
outbreak
overshadowed three key events affecting the region.
After the
outbreak
of turbulence in financial markets last year, the European Central Bank immediately provided ample liquidity to calm the situation, and has continued to do so ever since.
Before you start weeping in sympathy with the farmer, ask yourself one question: what would have been the fate of the lambs if there had been no
outbreak
of foot and mouth disease?
(He'll still get a cheque, since farmers are compensated by government for animals shot to contain the outbreak.)
Europe’s Blast from the PastBERLIN – If there is one historical episode that still makes most Europeans shiver, even after a century, it is the
outbreak
of World War I, the seminal European catastrophe, which began in the last days of July 1914.
With this year’s centennial of the
outbreak
of World War I, dozens of new analyses of “the war to end all wars” have rolled off the presses.
More than two billion people carry the TB bacterium, and at some point about 10% of them will develop the disease, which kills some 1.5 million victims per year (compared to 20,000 dead in the recent Ebola outbreak).
The International Monetary Fund, among others, has recently warned that slow growth and populism might lead to an
outbreak
of protectionism.
To be sure, informed, data-driven public policy to manage the current
outbreak
must remain a top priority.
Two major lessons should be learned from the current Ebola
outbreak.
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