Why should I be concerned about a Pandemic?

According to the W.H.O. (World Health Organization), the world is “now overdue” for an influenza pandemic, since mass epidemics or pandemics have occurred every 20 to 30 years and it has been nearly 40 years since the last one.

All signs point to the world being on the verge of another influenza pandemic. The World Health Organization has encouraged every country to develop a plan to deal with the up-coming global health crisis.

In 1918, it took 4 days to cross the US and 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic and both trips were

Today, it takes 4 hours to cross the country and 8 hours to get to Europe and both trips are common. Simply put, the virus can spread quickly and an outbreak on the other side of the world can quickly spread to every other region of the world if precautionary measures are not followed.

While vaccine is the primary method of prevention, a vaccine is hard to produce due to the fact that the strains of the virus mutate frequently.

US Emergency resources are limited and a pandemic outbreak could result in:

• Overwhelmed medical and civil services
• A partial to complete breakdown in civil services
• Riots