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Policymakers would do well to remember that it only takes one airplane flight for such a pathogen to go global.
If, for example, a pathogen is transmitted by an insect that lives in the tops of trees, susceptible hosts will not be infected if they never leave the ground.
Recently, however, effective methods for amplifying prions have been developed, which could enable detection of the pathogen before it can damage its host.
Introducing an innocuous version of a pathogen into the body causes the immune system to produce antibodies, which will neutralize the “wild” pathogen if it enters the body later.
Creating these maps is possible thanks to methods developed by the Malaria Atlas Project, which has produced a better spatial understanding of malaria than we have for any pathogen.
These organisms are the product of their own biological evolution, and the history of the plague’s development is perhaps (along with maybe HIV) the most detailed biography of any pathogen known to science.
What is now beyond question is that Yersinia pestis was indeed the pathogen responsible for two of the most destructive pandemics ever.
Vaccinating children against rotavirus, for example, can protect them from a pathogen that is responsible for 37% of all diarrhea deaths in children under five, thus saving 450,000 lives every year.
Health care is what we wield when inactive “health” has failed to keep us healthy: the immune system has been overcome by a pathogen, or too much (bad) food, alcohol, smoking, recreational drugs, or stress – perhaps compounded by too little sleep and exercise – have compromised the body’s normal operation.
As a zoonotic pathogen that leapt from animals to humans, the new coronavirus – like climate change – has its origins in unbridled human encroachment on the natural world.
And Bill Gates, who previously has been vocal about the danger of a global pandemic, says COVID-19 “has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
After trying and failing to convince the rest of the world to call COVID-19 the “Chinese virus,” the Trump administration has peddled an unsubstantiated theory that the pathogen was created in a lab in Wuhan.
Recent viral epidemics – SARS in 2003, H1N1 in 2009, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2016, and HIV – illustrate that travel restrictions failed to control the spread of the pathogen.
After all, the spread of an artificially released pathogen can be neither predicted nor controlled.
The only modern historical parallels to the economic disruption triggered by a microscopic pathogen are to the last century’s world wars.
Containing the transmission of any infectious pathogen – especially one as contagious as COVID-19 – requires aggressive action.
Our recent study of Vietnam’s COVID-19 policy response attributed the country’s initial success in slowing the rate of infection to the authorities’ focus on communication and public education through technology platforms and systematic tracing of pathogen carriers.
Once again, a foreign pathogen is threatening Africa.
Given this uncertainty, how we respond to a viral outbreak is as crucial as the nature of the pathogen.
Real success will lie not in taming a pathogen, but in rediscovering and institutionalizing the true value of compassion, respect, and generosity in the weeks and months ahead.
Far from being an “equal opportunity” pathogen, the coronavirus poses the greatest threat to those who are already in poor health, of which there are many in a country that still does not recognize access to health care as a basic right.
A once-in-a-century pathogen would demand once-in-a-century solutions.
Researchers are currently developing more than 550 innovative treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 – a pathogen unknown just a year ago.
Antibodies stay in our blood even after a pathogen has been defeated, so they are relatively easy to detect.
Instead, scientists use their knowledge of the infectious pathogen to model a disease’s pattern of contagion, and then work out which policy interventions will modify it.
There is no playbook for a scenario in which a high-tech world economy interconnected by global supply chains is brought to its knees by a microscopic pathogen.
And there are good reasons to fear new infectious diseases: the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) estimates that a highly contagious, lethal, airborne pathogen similar to the 1918 Spanish flu could kill nearly 33 million people worldwide in just six months.
Rather than thrashing around every time a new pathogen surprises us, we should simply deploy the same resources, organization, and ingenuity that we apply to building and managing our military assets.
It is only a matter of time before we are confronted with a truly lethal pathogen capable of taking many more lives than even the worst of our human wars.
And there will be a next time, if not COVID-20, then perhaps COVID-21 or some other pathogen.
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