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Topic: Pandemic triangle; how it starts...

Posted By: Dutch Josh
Subject: Pandemic triangle; how it starts...
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:15pm

To put it very simple;

-You need a disease

-spread

-hosts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_triangle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_triangle or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_triangle ; The triangle illustrates the three elements a fire needs to ignite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat - heat , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel - fuel , and an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizing_agent - oxidizing agent (usually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen - oxygen )

DJ, If you know the basic ingredients you also may know basic steps to control it...

In pandemics step 1 has to be knowing diseases...Testing for it is basic. Infectious diseases need "transmitters" -viruses, bacteria (etc) however diabetes, cancers also are at pandemic levels and the link to infectious diseases is less clear.

"One Health" has the basic idea a health risk for animals may bring health risks for humans (or the other way round).

Again-pandemics NEVER are isolated events. The basic tool has to be providing info !