Proof That You Need To Prepare For An Epidemic

I don't think I need to really say much about this post. I just put a chart from the Center for Disease Control on here. If you are one of the few people left in the world that do not believe an epidemic will be coming to your neighborhood, this chart should take care of that. It does not fit well on my blog. Sorry about that. You can still make sense of it. I hope this will encourage you to prepare for this and other disasters. Here is a link for those who would like to see it in the original /better format.   http://www.cdc.gov/oid/docs/ID-Framework.pdf

Box 1. Examples of infectious disease threats, unusual health events, and newly

discovered pathogens, worldwide, 2000–2011

2000

Outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, representing the first reported cases of the disease outside the African continent

2000

First detection of carbapenem resistance among the common gram‐negative bacteria Enterobacteriaceae (Klebsiella pneumoniae)

2001

Intentionally caused anthrax in the United States

2001

Identification in the Netherlands of a new virus, human metapneumovirus, among children with respiratory infections

2002

First detection of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria completely resistant to vancomycin

2002

Outbreak of multidrug‐resistant Salmonella Newport in the United States

2002

Norovirus infection on cruise ships entering U.S. ports

2003

Global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by a previously unknown coronavirus

2003

Identification of a new, hypervirulent strain of Clostridium difficile as the cause of hospital outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness in the United States and Canada

2003

Cases of monkeypox in the United States linked to exotic pets imported from Central Africa

2003

Re‐emergence of avian influenza A (H5N1) in Southeast Asia, and outbreaks in Africa

2005

Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola

2005

Identification in Sweden of a new virus, human bocavirus, among children hospitalized with acute respiratory infections

2006

Rift Valley fever outbreak in Kenya

2007

Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2007

Outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in Bangladesh

2007

First detection in Italy of mosquito‐borne transmission of chikungunya fever, previously detected only in parts of Africa and South and Southeast Asia

2007

Discovery in Thailand of a new human species of Bartonella, an insect‐borne bacteria that multiples inside red blood cells causing fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, and rash

2007

Hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Uganda caused by a new stain of Ebola: Bundibugyo Ebola virus

2007

Outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Uganda

2008

Ebola‐like outbreak in Zambia due to a previously unknown virus: Lujo hemorrhagic fever virus

2008

Isolation in Australia of a new virus (transplant‐associated arenavirus related to lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus) after three recipients of liver or kidney transplants from a single donor developed febrile illness and died

2008

Increasing outbreaks and international spread of carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and first detection of New Delhi metallo‐beta‐lactamase (NDM‐1), a genetic element that can confer such resistance

2009–10

Locally transmitted dengue in Florida, representing the first cases acquired in the continental United States outside the Texas–Mexico border since 1945

2009–10

Influenza pandemic caused by a new influenza strain, influenza A (H1N1)

2010

Outbreaks of cholera in Haiti

2011

Outbreak of Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 (STEC O104:H4) infections in Germany

2011

Identification by an international team of researchers of a strain of gonorrhea (H041) resistant to all available antibiotics