Where should humanity seek refuge, if a catastrophic big-epidemic a day affecting the world?
The question a group of researchers from the University of Ontago and Adapt Research now the answer to, write the University of Ontago in a news release, according to Science.dk
And Denmark is not on the list of obvious places, if you want to escape a pandemic. However, one should search against the isolated islands.
the Word ‘pandemic’ is when an infectious disease spreads over one or several parts of the world.
A report from the world health organisation’s expert panel, Global Preparedness, the Monitoring Board (GPMB), concluded in september that the world is not prepared for the real risk that an extremely dangerous pandemic may break out.
‘the Number of outbreaks has been increasing in the last decades, and the prospect of a global sundhedsnødsituation is great,’ wrote the GPMB in the report.
According to the report, there is a danger that an ‘infectious, fast-spreading, airborne and very deadly pandemic, which can beat the 50 to 80 million people to death and eradicate almost five percent of the world’s economy’ may break out.
Because the world has become more connected, can such a disease spread around the world within 36 to 50 hours.
the World Pandemic could kill 80 millions: the World is not ready
Tyra Grove Krause is chief physician and head of department at the Danish State serum institute. In connection with the Extra Magazine’s article about the GPMB’s report she said that according to her is hold in the GPMB’s warning.
– We know with certainty, that there will be new pandemics. It is just a matter of when, she said to Ekstra Bladet.
If you want to avoid a pandemic, should one, according to the new research paper search against the isolated islands, such as, for example, New Zealand, Australia and Iceland.
the Researchers ranked the 20 island nations, which are the best tilflugtsteder to avoid the disease and rebuild civilization. Australia is in first place.
‘Sygdomsbærere can easily bypass borders, while a closed, self-sufficient island could contain an isolated, technologically adept population that could repopulate the earth on top of the disaster,’ says Nick Wilson from the University of Ontago in the press release.
Although Denmark is not an obvious place to be, if a pandemic were to break out, we are well prepared for the scenario.
– Denmark has a strong preparedness, where the different sectors to work together, said Tyra Grove Krause to Ekstra Bladet.
She also indicated that the Statens Serum Institut and the Danish medicines agency is in the process of preparing a ‘generic epidemiplan’, which will focus on epidemics in general, and not only on specific diseases.
So, Denmark will be even better prepared if a new and unknown epidemic hit.
