history tells us that we will definitely
get surprised in the next few years
that's the infectious diseases advisor
to the us president
based on historical patterns he warned
that the world was due another pandemic
of
some kind there will be a challenge the
coming administration in the arena
of infectious diseases but also there
will be a surprise outbreak
it's been 100 years since spanish flu
and now we have covid19
so will pandemics diseases that affect
nearly every country on earth
be the new normal we live in a cleaner
environment which
does not allow pathogens to
thrive on the other hand because we are
encroaching
into new environments we are opening
ourselves
to unknown pathogens many scientists and
analysts argue that over the last 30
years
humans have created the ideal conditions
to make a small outbreak of a virus
go global it's almost like we've made
the perfect storm
what are the reasons well we've been
traveling more often moving countries
whether by choice or not
and we're sending stuff all around the
world too food animals plants gifts
cities and towns are becoming more
populated with people living closer
together
and we've been clearing land to build
more homes losing forests which are
often the source of new medicines and
cures
so does this mean scientists can tell us
when the next pandemic will be
well no no one was able to predict the
sarsko v2 pandemic because
we didn't even know that this virus
existed scientists have been saying
we need to set up systems to prepare
for such eventualities viruses will keep
appearing
the challenge now is for governments to
contain any virus that comes into their
country
and for people to change their habits to
reduce the likelihood of disease
spreading to stop a pandemic like covert
19
happening again
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