{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/la_grippe/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"tigue.com"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"69e55cfb-8f4d-5193-994e-fed95ef29212","excerpt":"What a strange and disturbing journey this whole ebola research project has proved to be. As one CDCer said of ebola:\n“It’s a gruesome and merciless diseases…","html":"<p>What a strange and disturbing journey this whole ebola research project has proved to be.</p>\n<p>As one CDCer said of ebola:\n<a href=\"http://fedscoop.com/cdcs-big-data-defense-ebola/\">“It’s a gruesome and merciless diseases”</a> but if\n<a href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141025-ebola-epidemic-perspective-history-pandemic/\">put in its historical context ebola is weak</a>.</p>\n<p>But the medical details of the disease are not what I am talking\nabout. What freaks me out how there woefully underprepared we are as a\nglobal society for epidemiological outbreaks. When it comes to global\nhealth defense systems, there is no there there.</p>\n<p>A major take away may well be that those preppers types are on to\nsomething, sadly they underestimate the scale of the problem, as\nillustrated in <a href=\"http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/files/ComingPandemic.pdf\">Preparing for the Coming Influenza\nPandemic</a>,\nwritten by a doctor. If you want to read more about the big flu:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/\">The Influenza Pandemic of 1918</a>,\nStanford has a good page which includes “Graphs of the Influenza Epidemic\nImpact.”</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3546\">A flutracker page</a> also has The Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers and scanned charts from Kansas 1918</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/rel002.htm%5D\">It All Started in Kansas</a> by David Brownm an article from Washington Post Weekly Edition Vol. 9, Num. 21, March 23-30, 1992</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCrJ-SVQHI\">Squirrel Nut Zippers - La Grippe</a></li>\n</ul>","frontmatter":{"title":"Prepping for La Grippe","date":"December 08, 2014","description":null}}},"pageContext":{"isCreatedByStatefulCreatePages":false,"slug":"/la_grippe/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/report_to_africa_open_data/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Ebola Report to Africa Open Data"}},"next":{"fields":{"slug":"/ebola_progress_metrics/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"Frontline signifiers of success in the ebola response"}}}}}