The Pros And Cons Of Pandemic

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Pandemic: Poor Preparation The world is not prepared for a new Pandemic. Practically every country does not have the proper preparation required to protect from an outbreak, and viruses are only continuing to grow. A pandemic is a disease that is spread over a vast distance in the world. Most pandemics in the world’s history spread far over the world and killed many, due to improper communication and poor medicine. Not enough effort has been put into protection from outbreak, because not every country has a strong medical presence. In order to be prepared for the next pandemic, every country must have the same level of preparation to eradicate disease. Unless the research, funding, and protection strategies of medical science increase, at
Bioterrorism is an extremely harmful but effect way to hurt a large amount of people over a vast distance. Instead of sending people to hurt others, one could inflict a disease on a population and the occupants would indirectly kill each other, due to the outbreak of disease. Bioterrorism is quiet and hard to detect but also extremely deadly “...and the aging bioterrorist detection system has “outlived its usefulness...”” which will only hinder protection against bioterrorists (Vaida). If bioterrorism increases it will become a serious threat to life, and become a huge boon to the strength of
Vaccines are used to protect entirely from disease, but “...vaccines exist for just a fraction of the 300 known infectious viruses” (Vaida). Only protecting against a few diseases is not enough to protect the world from a pandemic. There should be a surplus of vaccines to prepare for any major outbreak of diseases. The “... scarcity of vaccines for fast-spreading diseases...” is a threat, due to the fact that the world does not have a safety net to fall back on (Vaida). Without a strong supply of vaccines that can terminate a wide variety of disease, the world will not be prepared to defend against a

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