Firewalling off the Gap's worst exports: parasites

U.S. NEWS: "Developing World's Parasites, Disease Hit U.S.: Researchers Say Infections Spread by Bug Bites, Larvae Are Flourishing Along Border and in Other Pockets of Poverty," by Stephanie Simon and Betsy McKay, Wall Street Journal, 22-23 August 2009.

Where Gap meets Core, the Seam is teaming with parasites. And where do they expand inside the Core? Inside the pockets of poverty, or the Gap-like chunks that litter the landscape.

One expert says these parasites will do ten times more damage than swine flu (H1N1), but that they're on nobody's radar.

Comments

[TEJ]

Actually the problem is that we track with antiquated underfunded radar. But we're on it. Ironically I relearn these 'not in America anymore' skills while deployed to the gap (Timor Leste, Aceh Indonesia, Navajo Nation ...)

[Louis Heberlein]

Black Plague involved globalization of the time, but not just germs on dirty foreign rats. Under nourished rural people migrated to cities that had poor water supply and health practices and made things worse. The individuals and institutions benefiting from the new trade networks preferred to put all their profits into new transactions or personal goodies rather than worry about health risk conditions at home or in the network. In a few cases civil authorities taxed the traders to give money to religious (SysAdmin) groups to care for poor ... but it was seen as charity rather than a social economic investment.

We must make sure todays leaders and globalization players see this type risk/reward situation as a necessary SysAdmin risk reward investment.