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<blockquote data-quote="Reiser99" data-source="post: 1013307" data-attributes="member: 72977"><p>I found this part interesting.</p><p></p><p>"There's always something that happens at Christmas time. There's always some alert, or a signal of a suspected case. The last several years it's been Mers [Middle East respiratory syndrome] – a suspect case travelling to Malaysia or Indonesia or Korea or somewhere in Asia from the Middle East. So there's always some kind of signal. There's always something that happens," she said.</p><p></p><p>Checking out these reports of suspected infection, often in remote parts of the globe, is a way of life for Van Kerkhove and a select band of experts, including Christian Drosten in Germany, Marion Koopmans in the Netherlands and people from Public <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health" target="_blank">Health</a> England and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "I'm used to that over the holidays," she said. "Usually it's not a big deal. "This one was different."</p><p></p><p>I know it's not what they meant, but it really does imply that as long as it is unlikely to affect the west it is no big deal. Hell we've created a vaccine in less than a year for a new disease, but other diseases are still rampant in poorer areas of the world because the west isn't affected by it. While in some ways the vaccine should be celebrated, it should also be a mark of shame that wealthier countries only put resources into diseases that directly affect them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reiser99, post: 1013307, member: 72977"] I found this part interesting. “There’s always something that happens at Christmas time. There’s always some alert, or a signal of a suspected case. The last several years it’s been Mers [Middle East respiratory syndrome] – a suspect case travelling to Malaysia or Indonesia or Korea or somewhere in Asia from the Middle East. So there’s always some kind of signal. There’s always something that happens,” she said. Checking out these reports of suspected infection, often in remote parts of the globe, is a way of life for Van Kerkhove and a select band of experts, including Christian Drosten in Germany, Marion Koopmans in the Netherlands and people from Public [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/society/health']Health[/URL] England and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I’m used to that over the holidays,” she said. “Usually it’s not a big deal. “This one was different.” I know it's not what they meant, but it really does imply that as long as it is unlikely to affect the west it is no big deal. Hell we've created a vaccine in less than a year for a new disease, but other diseases are still rampant in poorer areas of the world because the west isn't affected by it. While in some ways the vaccine should be celebrated, it should also be a mark of shame that wealthier countries only put resources into diseases that directly affect them. [/QUOTE]
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