Pollution Climate Change Holocene Deforestation Population Acidification Y Not Freakin' Recyclable
Swine Flu, West Nile, Ebola, Zika and now Coronavirus. Experts say international travel and a warming climate bring us exotic diseases.
SOURCES: https://bit.ly/3e7IX9R
It’s a public health emergency in Dallas County Texas. Officials give live media briefings. People are scared. And the year? It’s 2012.
That’s when Dallas County recorded 173 cases of West Nile Virus. 21 people died; still the largest West Nile outbreak in US history.
Robert Haley is the director of epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
“It was a calamitous thing. People were not going outside. Everyone was afraid. Our ICU units in all the major hospitals were full of people on ventilators. It was really a disaster scene,” Haley said.
That was part of more than 10 years of outbreaks in North Texas. In 2009 it was Swine Flu. West Nile was 2012. In 2014, Ebola was diagnosed in Dallas — for the first time in America. And in 2016, 88 people contracted Zika in North Texas.
And now, of course, coronavirus has spread, which dwarfs them all.
William Sutker is the emeritus chief of infectious diseases at Baylor Medical Center.
“We’ve gone through a bunch of infectious diseases and so every time we think we have things under control something new shows up,” said Sutker.
This video was first published onSource link . We are just re-posting and re-sharing.
Y Not Freakin’ Recyclable Home
climate emergency
