How do we avoid this crisis?
In 1918 the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu (or H1N1) 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? Quarantine would be out of the question as this would move too fast and the consequences of this virus would be catastrophic, is there any way we can help prevent this from happening?
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Wash our hands.
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How to avoid it? becoming sanitary! People do not wash their hands nor do they cover their mouths/nose when coughing/sneezing. Norovirus probably wouldn't even exist if people were not so ignorant and were clean. People need to stop being lazy and take better care of themselves.They need to wash their hands after touching dirty areas and eating.They need to contain their sickness and become educated so they do not ruin other lives in the process.
Title : How do we avoid this crisis
Description : How do we avoid this crisis? In 1918 the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu (or H1N1) was estimated at killing 20-100 million people wo...