Interesting, and a bit scary. With the emergence of these new diseases, I'm curious as to how natural disasters will effect the transmission of them in regards to not only evacuation areas of mass amounts of people (such as the Astrodome in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina) but also in the spreading of diseases from flooding, movement of waters, and infected animals that might be caught and moved into a new location due to the disaster.
This article raises some provocative and disturbing questions with regard to ecological (dis)integration, and the potential effects of disrupting ecosystem equilibria 'too much'. What are the tipping points? Can we only recognize this in retrospect, after the 'genie is out of the bottle'?
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Interesting, and a bit scary. With the emergence of these new diseases, I'm curious as to how natural disasters will effect the transmission of them in regards to not only evacuation areas of mass amounts of people (such as the Astrodome in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina) but also in the spreading of diseases from flooding, movement of waters, and infected animals that might be caught and moved into a new location due to the disaster.
--brayden
This article raises some provocative and disturbing questions with regard to ecological (dis)integration, and the potential effects of disrupting ecosystem equilibria 'too much'. What are the tipping points? Can we only recognize this in retrospect, after the 'genie is out of the bottle'?
pdk
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