Swine Flu - What We Can Learn From H1N1
The current 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as the Swine Flu, is not the first outbreak of this virus. There were Swine Flu outbreaks in humans in 1918, 1976 and 1988. This most recent outbreak is founded on a new strain of the virus derived form other strains.
This virus is constantly changing and therefore able to re-emerge under the right conditions and cause panic when old vaccines are ineffectual towards the outbreaks.
So what are the “right conditions” for such viruses to form repeated outbreaks?
We’ve made it easy for these type biological disasters to wreak havoc on our societies. Our own human behaviors are the cause of these pandemics.
We have thrown the planet off balance. We see the evidence in the escalating frequency and intensity of natural disasters all around the globe - the tsunamis, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, etc. If you thought those were bad…Welcome to the world of Biological Disasters!
The greater our negative impact on society and our planet, the greater the chances of these deadly diseases sprouting up and spreading around the world. Look at the places these diseases sprout from - places where there are no resources to prevent or fight such ailments. These are the places from which the diseases spread and these are the places in which new diseases will continue to sprout and stay unless we help.
With a little aid we could prevent these things from happening. Would you rather pay now or pay later? We almost experienced a worldwide pandemic caused by an easily preventable disease. Mexico’s economy shut down! Shut down because of this outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which has a vaccine that many countries have in stock, in bulk even.
The people of the world need to wake up and realize it is our own behaviors that are causing these scares. We could have taken better care of our environment and maybe not have seen all the loss and destruction caused by natural disasters in the last few decades and we certainly could have prevented this Swine Flu outbreak that caused so much undue loss, fear and grief.
This virus is constantly changing and therefore able to re-emerge under the right conditions and cause panic when old vaccines are ineffectual towards the outbreaks.
So what are the “right conditions” for such viruses to form repeated outbreaks?
We’ve made it easy for these type biological disasters to wreak havoc on our societies. Our own human behaviors are the cause of these pandemics.
We have thrown the planet off balance. We see the evidence in the escalating frequency and intensity of natural disasters all around the globe - the tsunamis, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, etc. If you thought those were bad…Welcome to the world of Biological Disasters!
The greater our negative impact on society and our planet, the greater the chances of these deadly diseases sprouting up and spreading around the world. Look at the places these diseases sprout from - places where there are no resources to prevent or fight such ailments. These are the places from which the diseases spread and these are the places in which new diseases will continue to sprout and stay unless we help.
With a little aid we could prevent these things from happening. Would you rather pay now or pay later? We almost experienced a worldwide pandemic caused by an easily preventable disease. Mexico’s economy shut down! Shut down because of this outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which has a vaccine that many countries have in stock, in bulk even.
The people of the world need to wake up and realize it is our own behaviors that are causing these scares. We could have taken better care of our environment and maybe not have seen all the loss and destruction caused by natural disasters in the last few decades and we certainly could have prevented this Swine Flu outbreak that caused so much undue loss, fear and grief.
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