{"id":407,"date":"2009-05-03T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:31:04","slug":"global-swine-flu-787-cases-in-17-countries-hospital-overload-are-we-entering-an-age-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/global-swine-flu-787-cases-in-17-countries-hospital-overload-are-we-entering-an-age-of-pandemics","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Update: are we entering an Age of Pandemics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 2: Many U.S. emergency rooms and hospitals crammed with people\u2026 \u201dWalking well\u201d flood hospitals\u2026 Clinics double their traffic in major cities \u2026 ER rooms turn away EMT cases. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/05\/02\/worried.well.hospitals\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swine-flu-update-are-we-entering-an-age-of-pandemics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update May 4<\/strong>: Confirmed cases of H1N1 virus now at 985 in 20 countries (Mexico: 590, 25 deaths) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/disease\/swineflu\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHO<\/a>. <strong><\/strong> In U.S.: 245 confirmed U.S. cases in 35 states. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/h1n1flu\/\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might be entering an Age of Pandemics\u2026 a broad array of dangerous emerging 21st-century diseases, man-made or natural, brand-new or old, newly resistant to our current vaccines and antiviral drugs\u2026. Martin Rees bet $1,000 that bioterror or bioerror would unleash a catastrophic event claiming one million lives in the next two decades\u2026. Why? Less forest, more contact with animals\u2026 more meat eating (Africans last year consumed nearly 700 million wild animals\u2026 numbers of chickens raised for food in China have increased 1,000-fold over the past few decades)\u2026 farmers cut down jungle, creating deforested areas that once served as barriers to the zoonotic viruses\u2026\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124121965740478983.html#printMode\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Brilliant, Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newtech.aurum3.com\/images\/swine-flu.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2: Many U.S. emergency rooms and hospitals crammed with people\u2026 \u201dWalking well\u201d flood hospitals\u2026 Clinics double their traffic in major cities \u2026 ER rooms turn away EMT cases. \u2014 CNN Update May 4: Confirmed cases of H1N1 virus now at 985 in 20 countries (Mexico: 590, 25 deaths) \u2014 WHO. In U.S.: 245 confirmed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,12,20,5,4,8,17],"tags":[68,66,67,69,65],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-geopolitics","category-nanotechnology","category-space","category-sustainability","tag-china","tag-h1n1-virus","tag-mexico","tag-pandemic","tag-swine-flu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70163,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/70163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}