Who pays to stop a pandemic?
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic?
BIRD flu has not yet turned into a pandemic, but it is already killing the meager hopes of some of the world’s poorest people for a marginally better life.
When poultry become infected with the deadly strain of avian influenza (H5N1), it is essential that all birds nearby be culled to prevent further spread. ...
Moreover, it is not clear how Jakarta’s poor will replace the income they once received from chickens and other birds. ... [W]hen the birds of small-scale poultry farmers are culled, entrepreneurs who were just beginning to move up the development ladder can be plunged right back into poverty. The most dependent and vulnerable members of the community become even more dependent and vulnerable. “Backyard birds” are the only source of income for many women and children.
So these are interesting questions when trying to figure out how to work together for the greater good. I thought it was a well thought out article, it is written with a bioethics slant. Indonsia also wanted some compensation for the avian flu strains if I remember, as they would not be able to afford them otherwise. The big pharmacuticals seem to have lost a lot of goodwill with the whole fiasco over AIDS drugs in Africa.
Its also what you get in a partially developed world moving towards international cooperation, as some of these world organizations resemble in some ways a crude international government. Sort of a federation of countries on a much larger scale then the US states and poor countries, like poor people, sometimes are not entirely sure where they fit into a free market economy. There are a lot of parallels between past history and the present just with less profiling of individuals and more autonomous states, while some poor countries have dictators some are just poor.
BIRD flu has not yet turned into a pandemic, but it is already killing the meager hopes of some of the world’s poorest people for a marginally better life.
When poultry become infected with the deadly strain of avian influenza (H5N1), it is essential that all birds nearby be culled to prevent further spread. ...
Moreover, it is not clear how Jakarta’s poor will replace the income they once received from chickens and other birds. ... [W]hen the birds of small-scale poultry farmers are culled, entrepreneurs who were just beginning to move up the development ladder can be plunged right back into poverty. The most dependent and vulnerable members of the community become even more dependent and vulnerable. “Backyard birds” are the only source of income for many women and children.
So these are interesting questions when trying to figure out how to work together for the greater good. I thought it was a well thought out article, it is written with a bioethics slant. Indonsia also wanted some compensation for the avian flu strains if I remember, as they would not be able to afford them otherwise. The big pharmacuticals seem to have lost a lot of goodwill with the whole fiasco over AIDS drugs in Africa.
Its also what you get in a partially developed world moving towards international cooperation, as some of these world organizations resemble in some ways a crude international government. Sort of a federation of countries on a much larger scale then the US states and poor countries, like poor people, sometimes are not entirely sure where they fit into a free market economy. There are a lot of parallels between past history and the present just with less profiling of individuals and more autonomous states, while some poor countries have dictators some are just poor.