Are you ready for the next big pandemic? International watchdog organization warns it could claim 80 million lives
by: Tracey Watson
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, October 06, 2019
Just over 100 years ago, in 1918, 500 million people across the globe contracted the Spanish flu in the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Between 20 and 50 million of those infected died, including around 675,000 Americans. After first appearing in the United States, Europe and Asia, the disease spread like wildfire, eventually leaving a trail of destruction around the world.
More recently, since 1976, there have been numerous outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus in several African countries, with individual cases reported in a number of other locations, including the United States.
It is tempting to believe that these types of deadly global pandemics only happened long ago, and that in modern times disease outbreaks only really affect third world countries far away. The reality is a lot more frightening, however. A recent report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a watchdog organization established by The World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), warns that the next huge global pandemic could strike at any time, and that the world is totally unprepared to deal with it. (Related: Flu virus recreated in a lab could unleash new deadly pandemic rivaling 1918 Spanish flu.)
The next pandemic could claim 80 million lives
As reported by Global News, this was the first report released by the GPMB, which was created after the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The GPMB was launched in 2018, and consists of a number of respected health officials from around the globe.
The board’s mandate is to monitor just how ready the world is to face an international pandemic, and having examined the evidence, it has concluded that the planet’s governments are totally ill-prepared to deal with a crisis that could strike at any time.
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Furthermore, Dr. Victor Dzau, a member of the GPMB and director of the National Academy of Medicine in the United States, warns that we should expect not just one pandemic, but “many more” such disasters.
The report stresses that modern conveniences like air travel mean that a disease as deadly as the Spanish flu could spread across the globe far more quickly now than it did 100 years ago. In fact, a disease of that type could circle the globe in less than 36 hours, killing as many as 80 million people.
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