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Bird Flu: The Gaza Petri Dish
Bird flu has arrived in the Gaza Strip. While it is impossible to know whether or how the virus is going to mutate, it has a much better chance of becoming dangerous in Gaza.Quite a good article that highlights an issue that is widely ignored in our PC times. Namely, the pandemic is much more likely to start in some places than in others. It doesn't go to the next step, which is some places will do much better at containing its spread (once it does start) than others. Think of the dire warnings of 15 years ago that we were all at risk of catching AIDS. No one has really considered the geopolitical consequences of a pandemic that runs unchecked through some regions, but is contained in others leaving some populations immune and others not. It would divide the world into two in terms of travel and communication. Posted by: phil_b 2006-03-24 |
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