This concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial diseases includes expert opinion on likely future outbreaks, method of contagion, identification of systems, and likelihood of survival.MoorePeterCollins
In the third decade of the 21st century, two pandemics were preoccupying the world: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, both viral infections that most likely originate from the animal kingdom. HIV/AIDS entered human consciousness as early as 1981 and quickly spread around the world. The infection is st...
Noun1.pandemic- an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world epidemic- a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time Adj.1.pandemic- epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbrea...
The corona virus is the next in a long line of pandemics that have shaken the world. Diseases and illnesses like the Spanish Flu, Zika, Cholera, Smallpox, the Bubonic Plague and Black Death have all wreaked havoc on societies and killed millions. Article content The earliest recorded pandemic...
Peter Daszak was the report’s lead writer. He is president of EcoHealth Alliance, an international health, environment and development organization. He said in a statement that even though the experts call for urgent action, “this report is not a misfortune suggesting the world’s going to ...
“There is a great opportunity to take a joined-up approach to managing the risks posed by engineered pandemics“ –Clare Bryant These are some of the questions being addressed by a new initiative launched today at the University of Cambridge, which seeks to address the urgent challenge of...
It has to be so: in the modern world of pandemics, "past is the prologue." Coverage provides solutions in developing readiness and mobilizing response to the current pandemic and future ones. Addressing, military and security issues, government roadblocks to response, mutual aid agreements, ethics...
remains the deadliest pandemic. The virus is believed to have infected 500 million people, or one-third of the world’s population at that time, and caused between 30 million and 100 million deaths worldwide. In comparison, both World War I and II combined resulted in the deaths of roughly...
"We must renounce the moral and medical disaster of rich countries hoarding and controlling pandemic healthcare supplies, and ensure everyone has access to diagnostics, treatments and vaccines," he stressed, adding that the authority of the World Health Organization (WHO) and financing must also be...
World leading scientists alert: the world has entered an ‘era of pandemics’, and unless we halt the destruction of the natural world, pandemics like COVID-19 will be more frequent, more deadly, more costly and spread more rapidly. Laura Hildt reports. ...