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WARNING: 1.4 billion people. 200 million farms. 400 million pigs. 5.2 billion chickens. What could go wrong? A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic [...]
To better integrate disease forecasting into decision-making, the CDC and other public health agencies should look to the history of the National Weather Service for inspiration. Americans take for granted [...]
In february 2018 a panel of experts convened by the World Health Organisation (who) put together a list of diseases that posed big public-health risks but for which there were [...]
DANGER: The 2003-5 Bird Flu (H5N1) outbreak Case Fatality Rate (CFR) was 56% REQUIREMENT: Prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Learn More: TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND [...]
Abigail Charlet | IABS Jun 6, 2020 Thank you very much for your participation in the first IABS webinar that focused on SARS-CoV-2. Our aim in organizing the webinar was to bring [...]
Scientific consensus: Outbreaks are inevitable and can occur on any day. We must prepare for the next outbreak to prevent another pandemic. SEARCH GOOGLE "Pandemic Warning" 105,000 results SEARCH BING [...]
The least predictable aspect of the pandemic is exactly how unprepared we are to deal with it, said author David Quammen on CNN’s Global Town Hall Thursday. “The science was [...]
There are now 224 candidates in development as the world races to create a vaccine. China is pulling ahead in the race to find a vaccine for the new coronavirus, [...]
