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With the threat of yet another virus spreading from China and the Chinese government effectively quarantining millions of people inside the city of Wuhan, the world is asking what is the threat of contagion given the rapid spread of symptoms and our increasingly globalized system. Theories range on the origin of the disease from poor sanitation to an unintentional or even intentional release of a new bioweapon. But what is clear is that the spread of many pandemics in the past have had the ability to not only wipe out vast populations, but also completely re-write the course of history by acting as a wrecking ball to prevailing political and sociological orders.
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 155 – Invaders Within – Outbreak and the Threat of Bioweapons
— Reference —
– Outbreak, Cook (1987)
With the threat of yet another virus spreading from China and the Chinese government effectively quarantining millions of people inside the city of Wuhan, the world is asking what is the threat of contagion given the rapid spread of symptoms and our increasingly globalized system. Theories range on the origin of the disease from poor sanitation to an unintentional or even intentional release of a new bioweapon. But what is clear is that the spread of many pandemics in the past have had the ability to not only wipe out vast populations, but also completely re-write the course of history by acting as a wrecking ball to prevailing political and sociological orders.
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 155 – Invaders Within – Outbreak and the Threat of Bioweapons
— Reference —
– Outbreak, Cook (1987)