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2020 Coronavirus Pandemic – Action and Reaction
In the last blog, I explained how health care workers and therefore politicians had to do something at the onset of the CoV spread. The health community had several “shots across the bow” from viral outbreaks in 2003, 2009, 2012, and 2014. Now was their moment. The initial campaign for adaptive behavior – hand washing, […]
2020 Coronavirus Pandemic – a Bit of Background
This Coronavirus has hit and its impact has been severe! I am dumbfounded and staggered to see the speed with which it has moved, and the toll it has taken – physically, socially, economically. There is so much to say, and you may know that I am opinionated, so here goes. Along with a degree […]
Bird Flu raises its ugly head in Canada
In early December, an outbreak of Avian Influenza suddenly hit poultry farms in the populated Fraser Valley, near Vancouver, British Columbia. Immediately, several countries banned imports of poultry products from either BC or Canada. The BC Ministry of Agriculture, Emergency Management BC, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the RCMP, and local authorities were mobilized. […]
Ebola!
Ebola is back in the news, and rightly so. The name hits our emotions hard: Death. Fear. Doom. No cure; no escape. To date in late July, the mortality rate is pushing 800. The great relief for us in North America is that these deaths are in isolated, distant countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea. This […]
The New Terrorism
As I try to follow some of the trends in the world, especially in the context of emergencies, I see a disturbing, slowly-heating trend. There’s a growing group of people that want to see the earth’s population reduced. Various reasons: It may be environmental – the planet can’t support or sustain this large a number […]
The Inconvenience of the Flu
This season’s influenza is front and center in the news, especially with reminders to “get your flu shot”. It is perhaps this year’s the most universal health risk. Like other affronts to our physical condition, flu is a real and present threat. The death toll is rising, but is this different from any other flu […]
Pandemic and the Public
The slow but steady death increase in the “SARS-like” respiratory coronavirus centered in the Middle East should be of concern. But why, when it seems so distant, so remote? After all, the virus is clustered in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Tunisia, and Jordan. A few cases have been confirmed in Britain, France, Italy and […]
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