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Since the disease’s outbreak, it has been revealed that many common ailments – including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease – have similar properties.
Indeed, it also grossly neglected to deal with an
outbreak
of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, allowing the disease to spread out of control.
In September 1854, a cholera
outbreak
devastated the city’s impoverished, central Soho district, killing 500 people in just ten days.
Snow monitored the progress of the Soho
outbreak
in unprecedented detail, mapping each case.
His research convinced him that the source of the
outbreak
was a shared water pump in the heart of the district.
And once the pump’s handle was removed, the pace of the
outbreak
slowed dramatically.
His mapping and statistical analysis helped identify the epicenter of the
outbreak
and thus its root cause.
The recent Ebola
outbreak
in West Africa demonstrated, in tragic fashion, the importance of good data.
This infrastructure-building was spectacularly successful: The last urban cholera
outbreak
in Western Europe occurred in 1892, and by the time World War I broke out, communicable diseases had ceased to be the leading cause of death across much of the continent.
With the
outbreak
of the Dreyfus affair, the religious question appeared more clearly than ever as a major political issue.
(In 1913, a year before the
outbreak
of World War I, Europe was slightly more populated than China.)
In a globalized world, an
outbreak
of infectious disease in one country could quickly evolve into a serious threat to health elsewhere, as has happened in recent years with SARS, Ebola, and Zika.
America’s withdrawal, nearly coinciding with the
outbreak
of the Arab Spring and the eruption of the Syrian civil war, and its persistent passivity as the regional force for order, now threatens to lead to the disintegration of Iraq, owing to the rapid advance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, including its capture of the country’s second-largest city, Mosul.
The Great War’s Long ShadowBERLIN – This year marks the centennial of the
outbreak
of World War I, which is reason enough to reflect on what this seminal European catastrophe teaches us today.
Even before the recent Ebola
outbreak
in Liberia and Sierra Leone, South Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Mali were at risk of joining a long list of fragile or failing states that already includes Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For two years, health professionals have been trying to contain an
outbreak
of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid.
In the scramble to address the recent Ebola
outbreak
in West Africa, for example, the US alone had to contribute $5.4 billion in public funds.
The Tajikistan
outbreak
is especially troubling, because the country had been certified by the World Health Organization as polio-free.
It makes no sense to talk about eradicating diseases like polio if a small
outbreak
in a remote part of the globe can rapidly spread and imperil billions.
Vaccination rates in many parts of the United States have fallen well below 90% for polio, meaning that the risk of an
outbreak
is very high should a case be introduced.
One million children were unvaccinated between 2010 and 2013, when a polio
outbreak
occurred.
Over three million children were not vaccinated for polio, leading to an
outbreak
in rebel-controlled regions in 2013.
In response, an ad hoc coalition, including moderate opposition groups, Turkish authorities, and local NGOs carried out a series of vaccination campaigns and contained the
outbreak.
ISTANBUL – This month – the centenary of the
outbreak
of World War I – is an opportune time to reflect on big risks.
West Africa is afflicted by a terrible
outbreak
of the deadly Ebola virus, which will kill thousands of people.
The
outbreak
has so far remained regional, but it serves as a reminder that in an age of air travel by millions, no one is safe from the spread of infectious disease.
The size of the challenges that we face was made clear at the beginning of this year, when a measles
outbreak
killed more than 300 children in Pakistan – most of whom had not received vaccines.
Indeed, the dearth of bold leadership has already delayed an effective international response to the current Ebola
outbreak
for far too long, drastically increasing the costs of the crisis.
In fact, Western states had no power over the revolts’ outbreak, and they cannot determine their outcome.
Witness the global impact of the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa or the 2003 SARS outbreak, which jeopardized even wealthy economies like Singapore and Canada.
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