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In places like Vietnam, Indonesia, and China – where the
pandemic
strain will likely originate – expertise, coordination, discipline, and infrastructure are lacking.
But the situation in Turkey is what the outbreak of a human to human
pandemic
could look like at its earliest stages: the rapid spread of confirmed cases (and deaths) from an initial site to nearby villages and cities.
History suggests that if we were to make these drugs available to poor countries for ring prophylaxis, they would often be administered improperly – such as in sub-optimal doses – in a way that would promote viral resistance and only intensify a
pandemic.
If the
pandemic
were to begin relatively soon – say, within a year or two – there would be little that could be done to attenuate significantly the first wave of infections.
But, if we’re ready to rush the
pandemic
strain into an emergency program to manufacture vaccine, we could possibly blunt the second wave.
A flu
pandemic
will require triage on many levels, including not only decisions about which patients are likely to benefit from scarce commodities such as drugs, vaccines, and ventilators, but also broader public policy choices about how best – among, literally, a world of possibilities – to expend resources.
This dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations – even though they cross borders and could pose a
pandemic
threat to all the world’s peoples.
In this age of globalization, failure to make viral samples freely available risks allowing the emergence of a new strain of influenza that could go unnoticed until it is capable of exacting the sort of toll taken by the
pandemic
that killed tens of millions in 1918.
Failure to share potentially
pandemic
viral strains with world health agencies is morally reprehensible.
I see the world working together to end the Ebola
pandemic.
Disease has swept Africa, with the AIDS
pandemic
and the resurgence of malaria and tuberculosis.
Nearly 75 million people, or 3-5% of the world’s population, died in just a few months during the 1918 influenza
pandemic
– more than twice the number of people killed in World War I.
But, at a time of unprecedented global interconnectedness, everyone has a stake in ensuring that adequate health-care systems and structures are in place to address such a
pandemic.
In 1918, a flu
pandemic
caused by a bird virus killed some 40 million people around the world, far more than the recently concluded world war.
Some scientists today predict a repeat of an avian flu
pandemic.
Jumping VirusesScientists long anticipated that an influenza virus will spread - as now appears to be happening in Asia - from wild birds to humans, causing a
pandemic.
The chronic fear of health authorities is that, by chance, another avian influenza virus will mutate and spread from person to person to spawn a global
pandemic.
In a scenario that looks uncannily like the spread of a global pandemic, the economist Thomas Holmes has prepared a dynamic map simulation showing the spread of Wal-Mart stores throughout the United States.
They are not quite the
pandemic
that their explosive growth pattern resembles, but nor is their emergence completely benign.
The challenges that most define this era – nuclear proliferation, terrorism, global climate change, and
pandemic
disease – can be managed only collectively.
The last few years have been a cascade of interconnected crises: financial panic, rising food and oil prices, climate shocks, a flu
pandemic
and more.
We saw a similarly effective collective response to the H1N1
pandemic.
Perhaps people have come to feel less , not more, secure about their long-term future, either because of fears about terrorism, a global pandemic, or a severe rash of financial crises.
With oil prices dipping below $28 per barrel, the specter of a global economic
pandemic
has appeared.
The first
pandemic
began in AD 541, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Justinian.
There is tantalizing evidence that climate change also played a role in triggering the first
pandemic.
The plague in Madagascar today is an offshoot of what is known as the “third plague pandemic,” a global dispersion of Yersinia pestisthat radiated from China in the late nineteenth century.
A Primer for PandemicsA few times each year, the world is reminded that a
pandemic
threat is immanent.
Initial warning signs of a
pandemic
are most likely to appear in the developing world, but detection nodes should be positioned in every country, with the least possible expense.
A pandemic, flood, or cyber attack in the City of London or Wall Street could send the entire world into a financial tailspin.
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