What Keeps You Up At Night ?
Well that really depends on who you are and where in the world you live. But to the WHO its a pandemic.
A world wide pandemic, could see death on a scale not equaled in human history. There are several virus mutations that could go airborne that would cause carnage on that sort of scale. Bird flu, and its many variations could prove to be fatal and easily transported. Reality is our health system simply would collapse under the strain of a pandemic and people will die, not just in 5 and 10's but in the millions. The spanish flu is a classic example of the death one could cause.
The one that has me losing sleep would be a version of ebola. That is one nasty piece of work with a deadly mortality rate.
So how do we protect ourselves ? The answer is we cant and we don't. Anything that is airborne has the potential to move rapidly through populations, normally by the time its discovered many are already infected. So what do we do, keep living every day and planing for our future. Although we know its possible for these virus to mutate the odds of one being bad enough to cause damage is still low.
WHO is forever vigilant keeping an eye on all flu outbreaks they are our best chance at localizing any outbreaks, I for one are happy that they exist.
A world wide pandemic, could see death on a scale not equaled in human history. There are several virus mutations that could go airborne that would cause carnage on that sort of scale. Bird flu, and its many variations could prove to be fatal and easily transported. Reality is our health system simply would collapse under the strain of a pandemic and people will die, not just in 5 and 10's but in the millions. The spanish flu is a classic example of the death one could cause.The one that has me losing sleep would be a version of ebola. That is one nasty piece of work with a deadly mortality rate.
So how do we protect ourselves ? The answer is we cant and we don't. Anything that is airborne has the potential to move rapidly through populations, normally by the time its discovered many are already infected. So what do we do, keep living every day and planing for our future. Although we know its possible for these virus to mutate the odds of one being bad enough to cause damage is still low.
WHO is forever vigilant keeping an eye on all flu outbreaks they are our best chance at localizing any outbreaks, I for one are happy that they exist.
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