Episode-402- The Startling Reality of Pandemic Threats [ 55:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe real threat of pandemic disease if honestly startling. In spite of the recent H1N1 (swine flu) no event the pandemic threat is always with us. Today’s show has a mountain of scientific facts and figures that should drive home the reality of how ominous this threat to survival really is.
Join us today as we discuss…
- Pandemic vs. Epidemic
- The probability, impact and commonality of pandemic and epidemic
- How real the threat is
- A true scientific consensus
- Why the Spanish flu in 1918 seems to have killed so many healthy people
- The speed of mutation at the viral level
- What the infection and death rates from the 1918 pandemic would look like with a population of 6.7 billion – 2.4 billion infected – 60 million dead
- The total number of hospital beds in the US and the harsh reality of what that means
- Two lesser pandemics that killed 1.9 million people globally
- 5 emerging threats that have nothing to do with the flu
- The monetary cost of infectious disease
- Nipah – a disease unknown until 1999 with an 80% death rate
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
- Members Support Brigade
- TSP Gear Shop
- Join Our Forum
- SOE Tactical Gear – (sponsor of the day)
- The Berkey Guy – (sponsor of the day)
- CDC Stats on the 1818 Flu Pandemic
- American Hospital Association Survey on Number of Beds Available
- Pan American Health Organization on why the Spanish flu killed so many healthy adults
- Infection and Death Rates of H5N1 (the bird flu)
- The Threat of Emerging Infectious Disease
- Discover Magazine Article on a Lethal Illness Unknown Before 1999 – Nipah
- The Black Death May Not Have Been Bubonic Plague
- TSP’s YouTube Channel
- Mastering the 22 Rifle (my eBook due out soon)
- Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine
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