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Richard Feynman, the great theoretical physicist, has offered a simple yet powerful retort: "Does our understanding of the mechanisms of stellar activity diminish in any way our appreciation of the beauty and splendor of the night sky?"Three Humanitarian Challenges for Africa in 2018NAIROBI – In mid-2017, when a cholera
outbreak
in Somalia threatened to overwhelm local hospitals, health experts feared the worst.
With crippling drought, malnutrition, and poverty already endemic, an
outbreak
of deadly diarrhea seemed destined to paralyze the fragile state.
A recent assessment by the Red Cross Society of the DRC warns that the number of people displaced will continue to rise, and with a fast-spreading cholera
outbreak
threatening the region, a coordinated plan of action is urgently needed.
Yemen’s cholera
outbreak
is now the largest in history, having already surpassed one million confirmed cases, and, despite years of international assistance, the threat continues to stalk Africa.
For example, the repeal of the Corn Laws in the UK in 1846 favored a free market in international trade and accelerated globalization until the
outbreak
of World War I.
Likewise, failure to accommodate Germany’s rise contributed a century ago to the
outbreak
of World War I.Though Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for “a new type of great power relations” may sound anodyne, the phrase apparently demonstrates awareness of the “Thucydides trap.”
But, as devastating as that
outbreak
has been, its death toll of less than 20,000 people is dwarfed by that of preventable diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which together caused more than three million deaths in 2013, hitting the world’s poorest people the hardest.
Even after the
outbreak
of war in Europe that September, only 20,000 Jews found asylum in the US.
Of course, the concert ended in cacophony with the
outbreak
of World War I in the summer of 1914.
It may also have been behind Russia’s irrational decision to renege on its promise to give Poland the files that document the massacre of thousands of Polish officers on Stalin’s orders in the forest at Katyn at the
outbreak
of WWII.
Earlier research based on the 2014 Ebola
outbreak
in Sierra Leone found an increase in out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and showed that when schools reopened, boys returned to classes, but many girls did not.
(Additional doses would also be stockpiled, so that any future
outbreak
could be tackled before it spun out of control.)
During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a few countries cornered the vaccine market, leaving the vast majority of the global population with no vaccine at all until the
outbreak
was effectively over.
More important, as part of a national disease-control campaign announced on January 20, officials are identifying and observing any citizens who had traveled to and from Wuhan since the
outbreak
began.
It is still too early to assess the full economic impact of the coronavirus
outbreak.
Although severe control measures will weaken current economic performance, they might help to end the
outbreak
earlier.
Back in 2003, for example, most economists and researchers estimated that the SARS
outbreak
would lower China’s second-quarter GDP growth by about one-fifth, but shave less than 0.5 percentage points off the full-year figure.
These forecasts reflected the limited number of regions and sectors affected by SARS, as well as the expectation that the
outbreak
would last no more than three months.
So, on a graph of Chinese growth from 2002 to 2007, the impact of the SARS
outbreak
is not even visible.
Although the scope of the coronavirus
outbreak
now exceeds that of SARS, its duration is still the key factor for assessing the size of the impact on the economy.
True, China’s annual GDP growth of just over 6% in the last several years is much slower than at the time of the SARS
outbreak.
More than 100,000 cases and 3,800 deaths have been reported worldwide, and these figures almost certainly understate the scale and scope of the
outbreak.
Similarly, in the Solomon Islands, flooding in the capital caused by a 2014 tropical storm led to an
outbreak
of diarrheal disease, which spread to five districts that had not been affected by the flooding.
According to a recent World Health Organization study, 84% of 94 countries assessed are not prepared to detect and respond to a disease
outbreak.
But no sooner had the deal been concluded than China was confronted with an emergency in the form of the deadly coronavirus
outbreak
in Wuhan.
China’s leaders recognize the usefulness of relying on the market as the dominant mechanism for allocating resources, but also emphasize the state’s essential role in providing public goods such as national security, hard and soft infrastructure, and social-security programs, including timely responses to public-health hazards such as the coronavirus
outbreak.
Stop the Posturing on COVID-19ADDIS ABABA – The COVID-19
outbreak
is threatening to become a global pandemic of the type not seen for a century.
This new coronavirus has now spread to 77 countries, infecting over 93,000 people and killing more than 3,200; so far, 86% of cases and 93% of deaths have been in China, where the
outbreak
began.
The
outbreak
quickly became a highly politicized topic.
The response to the Chinese government’s unprecedented and largely successful measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, including travel and movement restrictions within infection hotspots, has been mixed.
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