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Inspired by: history/past event » New viruses kill several thousands in European cities

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Originally submitted by: Rafael Popper
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History/Past event (e.g. natural disasters, wars, discoveries, etc...)

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New viruses kill several thousands in European cities

Description

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Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
New viruses similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the Swine influenza virus (SIV) and other animal diseases continue to kill people in Europe. However, due to poor infrastructure and insufficient responses, together with inefficient government response, increase the death rate several thousands in Europe alone.

Keywords

visus, pandemic, influenza, syndrome, diseases, animal, human

Type of event

Unplanned consequence of events/trends/situations (e.g. financial crisis, accidental breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
An extreme extension of a trend/development/situation
(e.g. Increased global warming leads to a total ban on fossil fuels) 		Increasing number of animal diseases being transmitted to human

Historical parallels

SARS (2002-03) Swine Flu (2009)

Type of systems affected

Human-built Systems - E.g. organisations, processes, technologies, etc.

Classification

Undesirable

Importance

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Level 3: important for the European Union
Level 4: important for the whole world

Early indicators

(including weak signals)

Poor and late government response to Swine Flu

Latent phase

Obstacles for early indentification

scientific filters (knowledge/technology access)

Manifestation phase

Type of manifestation

In a probably pervasive way (contagious or transmittable)

Aftermath phase

Important implications
Collapse of a system

Key drivers or triggers

Provide up to 2 possible drivers or triggers of HIGH importance. Click on HELP to see examples:
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Driver / Trigger 1 		please describe
Driver / Trigger 2
Economic Corporate irresponsibility/negligence of industrial animal farms
Values/Ethical/Cultural Decreasing proportion of health research aimed at existing