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16/8/2018 2:07 pm  #91


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://wnep.com/2018/08/16/cdc-monitoring-measles-outbreak-in-21-states/

Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, and Washington D.C.
Measles is an airborne disease. Can be serious in elderly and immunocompromised people ( cancer patients)

05/9/2018 10:01 pm  #92


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://abc13.com/sick-passengers-crew-hospitalized-after-flight-lands-in-nyc/4152423/
The pilot reported two male passengers on board with extremely high fevers and approximately 100 passengers "coughing non-stop."
When CBP--Customs & Border Protection-- was informed that passengers were experiencing flu-like symptoms, an Incident Command Center was activated: "CBP and the CDC have worked with state and local authorities .... develop policies, procedures, and protocols to identify travelers that are known by U.S. public health officials to have a communicable disease and to handle in a manner that minimizes risk to the public. These procedures were utilized to mitigate any health-related concerns on the flight."

Eric Phillips, a spokesman for NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, initially tweeted that the flight stopped in Mecca, which is experiencing a flu outbreak, and "early indications point to that as a possibility."

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30/12/2018 12:14 pm  #93


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.sciencealert.com/bill-gates-warns-a-new-disease-could-kill-30-million-people-in-6-months
New pathogens emerge all the time as the world population increases and humanity encroaches on wild environments. It's becoming easier and easier for individual people or small groups to create weaponised diseases that could spread like wildfire around the globe.
According to Gates, a small non-state actor could build an even deadlier form of smallpox in a lab.
And in our interconnected world, people are always hopping on planes, crossing from cities on one continent to those on another in a matter of hours.

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03/1/2019 12:14 pm  #94


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/02/the-same-flu-virus-that-caused-the-1918-pandemic-is-back-this-year/

As for the future, researchers say every year it is likely a small number of healthy people will die from the seasonal flu, but across the world, it is the underprivileged who are most at risk.

"Because most of the world does not have access to the same level of prevention and medical care as developed countries, the greatest burden of any influenza pandemic can be expected to effect those least privileged,” researchers wrote in the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
“Globally, environmental issues such as cold climates, lack of sewage systems, and lack of quality housing with amenities such as central heating are likely to contribute to excess mortality.”

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26/1/2019 10:40 am  #95


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/healthy-32-year-old-man-just-died-flu-happened-182509662.html
It’s unusual to hear of healthy, young people dying from the flu but it happens. Last year, a 21-year-old aspiring personal trainer died from complications of the flu just days after he first started having symptoms. A 37-year-old mother of two also died of the flu last January after caring for her sick kids.

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29/1/2019 8:34 am  #96


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32822-8/fulltext
Three pandemics --obesity, undernutrition and climate changing.

Climate change can be considered a pandemic because of its sweeping effects on the health of humans and the natural systems we depend on (ie, planetary health). These three pandemics—obesity, undernutrition, and climate change—represent The Global Syndemic that affects most people in every country and region worldwide. They constitute a syndemic, or synergy of epidemics, because they co-occur in time and place, interact with each other to produce complex sequelae, and share common underlying societal drivers.

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09/4/2019 5:31 am  #97


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/candida-auris-outbreak-superbug-fungus-has-sickened-hundreds-cdc-says/
Over 600 cases in USA. A lot in New York.

People who recently had surgery, live in nursing homes, or who have breathing tubes, feeding tubes or central venous catheters appear to be at highest risk.

"Based on information from a limited number of patients, 30 – 60% of people with C. auris infections have died. However, many of these people had other serious illnesses that also increased their risk of death," the CDC said.

Treating Candida auris
While most Candida auris infections are treatable with antifungal medications, the CDC says it's concerned that some have proven to be resistant to all three main classes of antifungal medications. "In this situation, multiple antifungal medications at high doses may be needed to treat the infection," the CDC said.

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13/4/2019 12:18 pm  #98


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/unruly-passenger-american-airlines/index.html
It was a strange episode on American Airlines flight 1346 Friday as a 25-year-old man touched the faces of other passengers and sprayed them with an unknown substance before jumping off the grounded plane, Phoenix, Arizona, police said in a press release.
Passengers are going on other planes. Passengers go home, work, schools, shopping malls, movies....
Sprayed passengers goes on another plane, bus, train, elevator or car pool.

Survivors 2008-- drug company --testing flu vaccine ,things go wrong. Pandemic!

Survivors 1975- scientist drops a flask. He travels around the world. Collapses in an airport. Pandemic !
Survivvors novel -- airplane passenger gets ill Taken to isolation ward. Dies.
Flight attendant , becomes ill ; calls in sick. Dies.
Terry Nation created interesting scenarios.

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30/8/2019 1:54 pm  #99


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://news.yahoo.com/antibiotic-resistance-could-wipe-out-humanity-before-climate-change-065202593.html

Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical officer in the UK.

I think we have a slow-rising epidemic of people dying of drug-resistant infections, or being damaged by drug-resistant infections. A conservative estimate is 700,000 deaths a year at the moment across the world; in reality it will be rather more than that.

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04/10/2019 5:57 pm  #100


Re: Did Terry Nation know where things were heading?

https://news.yahoo.com/microbe-spreading-antibiotic-resistance-other-131448045.html
Antibiotic resistance is spreading fast all over the world. When infectious bacteria mutate in a certain way and then multiply, they can become resistant to even the most powerful drugs. But research has revealed a worrying alternative way that antibiotic resistance can spread: an organism that passes on its resistance on to other living bacteria.

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