"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/16/2018 at 13:50 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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Here’s some light, uplifting weekend reading.
The Congo is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. It was here that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , eventually detected half a world away, in California. It was here that monkeypox was first documented in people. The country has seen outbreaks of Marburg virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, chikungunya virus, yellow fever. These are all zoonotic diseases, which originate in animals and spill over into humans. Wherever people push into wildlife-rich habitats, the potential for such spillover is high. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will more than double during the next three decades, and urban centers will extend farther into wilderness, bringing large groups of immunologically naive people into contact with the pathogens that skulk in animal reservoirs—Lassa fever from rats, monkeypox from primates and rodents, Ebola from God-knows-what in who-knows-where.
SVTyler
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/16/2018 at 14:42 |
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Great article (the effort The Atlantic puts into their long-form pieces is incredible), just wish it wasn’t so terrifying. Seems like the impact of funding of healthcare and the resulting prioritization of resources and logistics they briefly talked about could be its own article too, like the “why” of it more than the “how”.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/16/2018 at 14:45 |
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If you want to read an interesting book on the subject, check out Hot Zone.
sony1492
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/16/2018 at 15:06 |
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As a civilization we are more prepared then we’ve ever been, a virus is still capable of wiping out millions of people but instead of being in the hands of god like we would be been hundreds of years ago we are in the hands of science. We stand a real chance at mitigating the losses instead of leaving things to fate. I think its less depressing knowing we are capable of helping ourselves when we pour enough money and effort Into a problem.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> SVTyler
06/16/2018 at 16:24 |
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I think of things like this when conservatives ask why we give away so much money to other countries. I’m glad you found it a good read.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> sony1492
06/16/2018 at 16:25 |
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Think: Manhattan Project.
I take your point.
Dave the car guy , still here
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/17/2018 at 20:11 |
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I’m worried about the recent rise in parents not getting kids vaccinated. They should have been around when we got to see kids with polio and smallpox. Mumps and measles were nothing compared to those.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Dave the car guy , still here
06/18/2018 at 10:33 |
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There are some giant conspiracy theories surrounding vaccination.
How’s the new job?