{"id":330,"date":"2003-12-16T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/dealing_with_pandemics\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T16:53:44","slug":"dealing_with_pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/dealing_with_pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prescription drugs might not be the only medical supplies Americans seek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/story.html?id=1f922bec-ee73-48fd-b2d5-4c2d5641ab93\">north of the border<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada is one of just three countries equipped to survive a global outbreak of killer influenza, top American flu experts say.<br \/>\nThey say the U.S., Hong Kong and most other nations would be devastated by a pandemic like the Spanish Flu, which killed an estimated 40 million people in 1918. In recent years, small outbreaks of new flu strains have provoked fears of a new pandemic.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only very few places in the world &#8212; maybe Canada, maybe Ontario, maybe the Netherlands, maybe Britain &#8212; will be able to handle it,&#8221; said Dr. Robert Webster, a virology professor at St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;Obviously, Ontario is the only place in the world at the moment with that capacity because of the fact they&#8217;re dishing out so many doses of flu [vaccine] during an average season.&#8221;<br \/>\nMany American states have already run short of vaccine, and flu shots can be expensive, a potential barrier for many people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we should be putting more resources into confronting known, natural killers and not empty the bank on the hijacking threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/dealing_with_pandemics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Dealing with Pandemics\"><p>Prescription drugs might not be the only medical supplies Americans seek north of the border: Canada is one of just three countries equipped to survive a global outbreak of killer influenza, top American flu experts say. They say the U.S., Hong Kong and most other nations would be devastated by a pandemic like the Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}