Pandemic
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Once 40-90% of the population has received it— the precise amount varying based on the virus— herd immunity kicks in, and the
pandemic
fizzles out.
In a typical pandemic, when one country is peaking, another may be getting its first cases.
If coordinated properly, this could end a
pandemic
in just a few months, with low loss of life.
But unless the virus is completely eradicated— which is highly unlikely— there will be risks of it escalating to
pandemic
levels once again.
Even if the
pandemic
officially ends before a vaccine is ready, the virus may reappear seasonally, so vaccines will continue to protect people.
Take heart: the
pandemic
will end.
And if we take inspiration from the successes and lessons from the failures, we can keep the next potential
pandemic
so contained that our children’s children won’t even know its name.
We've seen it in the
pandemic
flu.
But he placed the likelihood of one such event above all others at close to 100 percent, and that is a severe flu
pandemic.
You know, the problem is if this virus occasionally mutates so dramatically, it essentially is a new virus and then we get a
pandemic.
Well, we seem to have dodged the deadly
pandemic
this year that most of us feared, but this threat could reappear at any time.
In June, the World Health Organization declared the first global flu
pandemic
in 41 years.
This was a huge impact on my mind, because I am a woman and I am a mother, and I hadn't realized that the HIV/AIDS
pandemic
was directly affecting women in such a way.
It's one way to start looking at intervention with the AIDS
pandemic.
Apparently it's on the thresh hold of mutating into something very contagious and millions upon millions of people are going to be wiped out in a global
pandemic
.
I thought that this Geostigma was an illness of
pandemic
proportions...
The Zombie Diaries is set as widespread panic hits England, there's a
pandemic
sweeping across Asia similar to Bird Flu & the Government is being urged to take action to prevent an outbreak over here.
A team of four documentary filmmakers head outside London to a remote farm to hold an interview about the possible
pandemic
but find themselves trapped & isolated as large parts of London are evacuated because the virus hits & hits hard, the virus appears to turn the infected into mindless flesh eating zombies.
Worse, they can have a cascading effect, with, say, a
pandemic
or cyber-attack provoking a financial or political crisis and imposing costs disproportionately on those who can least afford them.
The
Pandemic
That Wasn’tPALO ALTO – Last June, the United Nations’ World Health Organization, responding to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, boosted the
pandemic
alert to the highest level, Phase 6, meaning that a
pandemic
was under way – the first time in 41 years that the organization had taken that declared step.
And the
pandemic
alert was doubly strange, given that ordinary seasonal flu sweeps the world annually, is invariably far more lethal than the currently circulating low-virulence H1N1, and certainly meets the WHO’s definition of a pandemic: infections over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
The decision in April 2009 to raise the
pandemic
flu threat to the penultimate level, Phase 5 (“Pandemic Imminent”), already raced far ahead of the accumulated data, so the Phase 6 declaration in June revealed the organization’s paradigm to be fundamentally flawed.
According to Matthew Hingerty, the managing director of Australia’s Tourism Export Council, the country lost thousands of tourists because of the WHO’s
pandemic
declaration.
For all these reasons, the declaration of a
pandemic
must not be a prediction but rather a kind of real-time snapshot.
In a January 14 conference call with reporters, Keiji Fukuda, the special adviser to the WHO’s director general for
pandemic
flu, argued that the organization did not overplay the dangers but “prepared for the worst and hoped for the best.”
The WHO’s dubious decisions demonstrate that its officials are either too rigid or incompetent (or both) to make necessary adjustments to the
pandemic
warning system – which is what we have come to expect from an organization that is scientifically challenged, self-important, and unaccountable.
In 1918, the crisis response to the flu
pandemic
cost some $17.5 trillion.
A
pandemic
spread by birds or travelers on jet aircraft could kill more people than perished in World Wars I or II.
It suffers from endemic malaria, which is like a SARS
pandemic
that lasts for centuries, not for a few months.
Simply stated, preparing for the next
pandemic
means not only building global capacity, but also paying for it.
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