Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics

Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by maxerickson on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:25PM (#21051883)

The public health response was relatively ineffective in 1918 (influenza was not particularly well understood then), a similar virus would very likely not infect the same proportion of people as were infected then.

The proportion would probably also be reduced in at least 2 ways. The geographic extent would be smaller, and in areas where there were outbreaks, fewer people would be infected.

If there was a good vaccine match for the virus, even more so.

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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by abeppu on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:33PM (#21051980)

> The geographic extent would be smaller

This is definitely not my area, but as a lay person I've heard that because of the large increase in global travel, a dangerous flu strain could spread basically to basically every continent before we had time to meaningfully respond. Do you have reason to believe that isn't the case?

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Re:Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resista... by evgen on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:33PM (#21051992)

The 1918 pandemic also arose in a world without air travel. The geographic extent of any similar disease would not be smaller, it would be much larger and spread much quicker.

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