Strengthening the Global Response to Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue

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Chapter 3 - Strengthening the Global Response to Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century, with a COVID-19 Epilogue

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021

David E. Bloom and

Daniel Cadarette

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Solomon Benatar and

Gillian Brock

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Solomon Benatar: Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock: Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland

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In 1918, as the First World War was winding to a close, a mysterious disease that left victims blue in the face and gasping for air tore through the trenches crisscrossing Europe and traversed the oceans, stowed away on warships. By the time the so-called Spanish flu had run its course in 1920, the pandemic had infected more than a quarter of the world’s population and resulted in some 30 million to 100 million deaths (Patterson & Pyle, 1991; Johnson & Mueller, 2002). In comparison, the two world wars are estimated to have killed roughly 77 million combined (The Economist, 2018). By any measure, the 1918 flu pandemic was one of the worst catastrophes of the twentieth century.

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