How To Manage Disease Risks

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  1. Pragmatist

    Pragmatist Master Survivalist
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    https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/03/09/560556.htm


    I'm placing this article here rather than basic news.

    Whether you're in a rural setting or an urban one, meeting with humans who might be vectors is a matter of basic health care / first aid - in the broad sense.

    Director Vincent Coello (spell ?) explains the perceived disease risk and trust in government institutions.
     
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  2. Old Geezer

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    https://www.fairus.org/issue/societ...ed-immigration-expose-us-public-health-crisis

    "Could Uncontrolled Immigration Expose Us to a Public Health Crisis?"

    AUGUST 2017 | Read the Full Report (PDF)


    "Communicable diseases do not stop at international borders. They could be one of the most dangerous – yet rarely considered – consequence of inadequate immigration controls. Nevertheless, the mainstream media, and most policy makers, avoid any discussion of the public health challenges presented by illegal immigration. However, in a world where rapid global travel is both accessible and affordable to large numbers of people, the possibility of an epidemic traceable to migrants is a reality that cannot be ignored.

    "When people live in areas lacking basic sanitation and medical care, diseases will take root and spread rapidly. This is neither an expression of xenophobia, nor an excuse to exclude migrants as “carriers of disease.” The need to control infectious disease is a simple fact of human biology.

    "Nevertheless, microbes can be carried only so far by moving air and water. Most illnesses are spread by contact with infected people, livestock or agricultural produce. As a result, researchers have concluded that the international movement of people is a significant factor in disease outbreaks: “Mobile populations can link zones of disease emergence to low prevalence or non-endemic areas through rapid or high-volume international movements, or both.” In plain English, that means that travelers can carry infections from one place to another.

    "Many of the people traveling to the United States – both legally and illegally – come from places with limited access to medical services and poor sanitation infrastructure. As a result, many migrants may have been exposed to a disease with public health ramifications. And it’s entirely possible that they aren’t aware they are at risk for infection.

    "Therefore, the United States must take steps to make public health screening an important part of our immigration processes. If we don’t, there is a very high risk that a foreign visitor may unknowingly import an easily communicable disease, like Ebola, which could have disastrous consequences were it to spread in a tightly packed metropolis like Los Angeles or New York. Furthermore, the possibility of terrorists using an infectious bio-weapon, while shocking to American sensibilities, is all too real.

    "Could an Outbreak of Deadly Disease Happen Here?"
    "Unfortunately, the answer is “Yes, it could happen here.” Germany provides a good case study. It is a developed nation whose healthcare system and immigration policies are comparable to those of the United States.


    "Germany recently accepted roughly two million refugees with minimal security vetting and virtually no health screening. The majority of people relocated to Germany in this wave of migrants come from countries in the developing world that are currently experiencing social and political conflicts that make the delivery of medical services and the maintenance of basic sanitation services difficult, if not impossible. Their arrival without proper medical screening has had a negative effect on Germany’s health and welfare.

    "The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany’s equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is responsible for monitoring infectious diseases managing outbreaks. RKI recently reported a significant increase in communicable diseases across Germany. In its annual report on “Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Germany,” the institute concluded that recent increases in dengue fever, Hantavirus, hemorrhagic fever, malaria, tuberculosis and other communicable diseases are directly attributable to the migrant stream currently pouring into Germany.

    "Many of the infections mentioned in the RKI report have been rare in Europe for decades. Their re-emergence is a significant threat to the general health and welfare of native Germans and new arrivals alike. Germany has a first class healthcare system that should be able to address a discrete outbreak of a single disease, even a serious one. However, the sheer number of refugees and the diversity of infectious diseases they appear to be spreading has been taxing the German public health infrastructure since the beginning of the refugee crisis.

    "During the Obama administration, the U.S. experienced a mass migration event similar to the German refugee crisis: the arrival of significant numbers of unaccompanied alien children. Although less numerous than the Middle Eastern, African and South Asian refugees streaming into Germany, the Latin American children who arrived on the U.S. border came from countries with similar public health issues – lack of basic sanitation, limited access to healthcare services and an absence of preventative medicine programs.

    "Their arrival was accompanied by significant increases in tuberculosis, dengue fever and swine flu infections. Unaccompanied alien children also appear to have been the source of the deadly outbreak of the EV-D68 enterovirus that spread throughout the American West in 2014. While these outbreaks were rapidly brought under control, that seems to have been a function of the relatively small numbers of alien kids. A full-blown refugee crisis of the type affecting Europe might have resulted in the type of across-the-board increase in disease that Germany is presently experiencing.

    "Currently, U.S. immigration law mandates health screening only for individuals seeking to obtain Lawful Permanent Resident status and those hoping enter the country as refugees. The roughly 300 million foreigners who make temporary visits to the U.S. each year don’t even have to show they’ve had a flu shot. Pets, livestock, cargo, and agricultural products crossing the border undergo regular inspection for disease vectors; people don’t.

    "If this seems like a large gap in our defenses – it is. The complete lack of health screening for short-term visitors to the United States makes America particularly susceptible to the terrorist use of infectious diseases as weapons. National security scholars have even suggested that terror groups may already be exploring the use of Ebola and other diseases as a low-tech bioweapon. 'Such groups could simply use human carriers to intentionally infect themselves…' and spread the diseases via the world’s air transportation system."
     
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  3. lonewolf

    lonewolf Societal Collapse Survivalist. Staff Member
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    not just in the USA, diseases can travel from one side of the world to the other within 24-26 hours because of modern air travel, all it takes is a plane ticket, or in some cases paying human traffickers thousands of pounds.
    this was shown in the 1970s in BBC's "Survivor" series, then it was fiction, now it is real life.
     
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