In Europe
ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had
several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy herds in 17 US states from
North Carolina to California and has just been
reported in cats. So far, it is reluctant to spread among people, although people can both get it and give it to animals.
Between
500 and 1,000 people globally are now dying every week from Covid. This winter, healthcare in much of the developed world has been hit by a combination of flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Covid, leading to
rising hospital admissions and deaths. We don’t have real control of any of these diseases.
In the last 60 years there have been four pandemics –
a million dead from flu in 1968-69;
774 people dead from Sars-1 in 2002;
7 million dead from Covid since 2021;
280 dead from mpox since 2022.
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