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And its analyses would be even more valuable to less wealthy countries, where preventing
outbreaks
of infectious diseases could directly boost long-term economic growth.
Will they sustain and strengthen disease surveillance, so that
outbreaks
are detected and addressed quickly?
It also applies to
outbreaks
like the Ebola epidemic.
Malaria has already returned to the Korean peninsula, and parts of the US, southern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced small
outbreaks.
These outbreaks, of course, cannot be traced conclusively to global warming.
But the case for a climatic cause becomes stronger when
outbreaks
coincide with other projected consequences of global warming.
More droughts and floods due to global warming will also probably fuel
outbreaks
of water-borne diseases.
Outbreaks
usually occur at the beginning of the calendar year, when dry winds from the Sahara Desert begin blowing southward.
Whole communities can be plunged into deeper levels of poverty as health-care workers struggle to contain
outbreaks.
Compared to previous anti-Jewish outbreaks, today's anti-Semitism is less an attack on individual Jews than an attack on the "collective Jew," the state of Israel.
The flood of people into camps in Lebanon and Jordan has overwhelmed sanitation measures, leading to
outbreaks
of infectious diseases and resurgence in some areas of diseases that had been nearly eradicated, such as polio among Syrian refugees in Iraq.
So Novartis has formed a partnership with the Earth Institute, the United Nations, and private-sector groups to train and deploy by 2015 a million community health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa to deliver basic treatment and preventive care, and to track disease
outbreaks.
A similar rush to judgment occurred in the wake of massive tornado
outbreaks
in the US in recent years, even though the scientific literature does not offer strong support for such a connection.
Parts of East and West Africa are expected to get wetter, with rain falling in heavy, intense storms that not only bring greater risks of erosion, flooding, and crop damage, but also leave people more exposed to malaria and cattle herds to decimation by
outbreaks
of diseases like Rift Valley fever.
Countries with fragile health systems may be able to tackle a given ailment with the help of NGOs and foreign governments, but they are likely to be dangerously unprepared when confronted with unexpected
outbreaks
of new diseases.
In the case of pandemics, the key is to support countries where
outbreaks
occur and help those most at risk of infection.
The virus does not spread as rapidly as many others, such as influenza, which in the past limited the scale of epidemics, particularly because
outbreaks
were confined to rural areas.
Connectivity also provides access to important and up-to-date information about new threats, such as disease
outbreaks
or the spread of conflict, or the availability of necessities like food and water, clothing, shelter, and health care.
Similarly, a 6,000-man commando unit will be recruited not only to confront
outbreaks
of domestic terrorism, but also to provide the air-landed component for the new ship-based helicopter squadrons.
Communicable disease
outbreaks
occur over days to weeks (or at the most, months); the danger is “clear and present”; and prevention and control generally requires intervention by the state – the quarantine of victims, tracing and immunization of contacts, or elimination of environmental sources of the infectious agent.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, worldwide efforts to address TB have emphasized biomedical solutions and focused on treating
outbreaks.
In such an environment,
outbreaks
of an old disease (such as cholera) or a new one may lead to new regional and global pandemics.
Most
outbreaks
of transnational terrorism in the past took a generation to burn out.
Primary health-care providers are, in many ways, a health system’s “first responders,” helping to identify threats, whether to individuals or, in the case of disease outbreaks, to entire communities.
For example, if more funding were devoted to community-level health care projects, local organizations would be better positioned to lead when
outbreaks
threaten.
Since the summer, when several severe
outbreaks
of violence effectively ended a two-year old ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government, the Kurdish conflict in Turkey has once again been burning white-hot, raising fears about the impact of an empowered PYD.
Recently, thousands more fled fresh
outbreaks
of fighting between local militias and supporters of Laurent Nkunda, a renegade general of Congo’s army, who has rejected a call to begin disarming his troops.
As global temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, so, too, does the frequency and intensity of natural disasters and, with them, the risk of deadly epidemics and endemic disease
outbreaks.
This could lead to a resurgence of yellow fever, which was once pervasive in the United States and parts of Europe, and
outbreaks
of dengue fever and Zika virus.
In fact, climate change, increased global mobility in business and tourism, and demographic shifts are likely to increase the risks, uncertainties, and costs associated with similar
outbreaks
in the future.
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