{"id":11170,"date":"2013-05-10T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2013-05-10T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:22:00","slug":"pandemic-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11170","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://dentalprovidence.com/crowns/ I’m not on the pandemic beat, but some of the best science journalists are, and they are busy these days. Today, David Quammen, author of the recently published and critically acclaimed book<\/a>, Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic<\/em>, has an op-ed<\/a> in the New York Times<\/em>. It begins:<\/p>\n

Terrible new forms of infectious disease make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small. Early indicators can be subtle and ambiguous. When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places \u2014 reports to which disease scientists and public health officials, but few of the rest of us, pay close attention. Such reports have been coming in recent months from two countries,\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/stateroom-categories/ The worrisome Chinese bird flu strain that has gotten a lot of attention is not, in its present form, going to cause a pandemic, says<\/a>\u00a0Thomas Frieden, director of\u00a0the U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC). But if you want to learn about the potential for its lethal mutation, and why you should be worried about it, read this piece<\/a>\u00a0in Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00a0by veteran science journalist Laurie Garrett. As Peter Singer tweeted:<\/p>\n

No one reports (possible) pandemics like @laurie_garrett<\/a>: Is a Pandemic Being Born? foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2013\/\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Singer (@PeterASinger) April 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://ramedicare.com/bundle-packs/ Meanwhile, if any of the latest scares “fail to explode into a large-scale pandemic,” Tom Paulson wonders,<\/a> “will the public \u2014 and policy makers \u2014 be better prepared or somehow inoculated against taking the threat seriously in the future?”<\/p>\n

Ambien Buy Online The preparedness concern was recently addressed in an important New York Times<\/em> column<\/a> by Tyler Cowen, who wrote about the need to reward medical research (as a “public good”) for new pandemic fighting drugs and vaccines.<\/p>\n

Finally, for everything you needed or wanted to know about pandemics, David Dobbs compiled a great one-stop shop<\/a> at Slate<\/em>, and\u00a0Maryn McKenna, Dobbs’ colleague at Wired<\/em> Science blogs<\/a>, has a most helpful guide<\/a> on how to follow pandemic-related news.<\/p>\n

https://forgive123.com/directions-to-headquarters/ Of course, if you just want to kick back for a few hours and watch a pandemic wreak civilizational havoc, there’s always Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Buy Carisoprodol Online I’m not on the pandemic beat, but some of the best science journalists are, and they are busy these days. Today, David Quammen, author of the recently published and critically acclaimed book, Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic, has an op-ed in the New York Times. It begins: Terrible new forms of infectious… https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/ Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2894,2967],"tags":[745,1447,1581],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic","category-select","tag-bird-flu","tag-pandemics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}