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Dakota asked:
What do you think would happen if there was an influenza AH5N1 (deadly avian bird flu) outbreak?
What do you think would happen if there was an influenza AH5N1 (deadly avian bird flu) outbreak?
How would we react to that threat both locally and globally?
What would we have to do to contain the disease, yet survive as a society?
What would the effects be on things like the economy, travel, school, work, and grocery shopping?
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Tags: Avian Bird Flu, Bird Flu Outbreak, Grocery Shopping, Influenza, Travel School
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One Response to "What do you think would happen?"
July 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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In 1918 the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu (or H5N1) was estimated at killing 20-100 million people worldwide. The human body’s immune system came nowhere close to being able to combat it. People woke up in the morning perfectly healthy and by the end of the day they were dead. It was bad. H5N1 (bird flu) is version 5.0 of that virus, and in today’s modern world, it would be devastating. Geographers have a term called space-time compression, which is the term that labels how the time it takes to travel from one place on the globe to another is taking less time, making the world, in a sense, smaller. Let me provide you with an example series of events of what would happen if H5N1 transferred to humans, keep in mind the Spanish flu is thought to have originated in rural Kansas.
A farmer from southern Georgia is taking a trip up to see his relatives in New York City. He and his family are the only people contaminated with this new virus. He arrives at the airport and boards his plane. He develops a mild cough and he coughs into a napkin, which the flight attendant picks up. She gets contaminated. Then she hands out peanuts to all the passengers. They all get contaminated. The farmer arrives in New York but has to wait to get picked up, so he goes to buy a snack. He exchanges money with the girl at the cash register making her contaminated. All the food and people who buy food get contaminated. All the passengers of the plane do the same at different restaurants and stores. Pretty soon everyone in the airport carries the disease. Then they all board planes going to all the major cities throughout the globe repeating the process. Get my point?
First the major cities would go after about a week, then over the course of a month, it would diffuse to the more remote regions, killing them as well. Within weeks, a billion people could die.
Travel would be the first to shut down in petty attempts to quarantine the spread. Store bought food would no longer be trusted people wouldn’t buy it. After that, everything pretty much shuts down.
This will cause a reverse in the division of world power, as the more remote regions and lesser developed counties will be less likely to have the virus spread to them whereas major countries, it will spread before they even know its coming.
At least, thats my theory, hope it helped