http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pandemics.html
Early Detection, Early Response
Two billion pictures printed (before internet), 150,000 people went door to door find every case of small pox.
They offered a reward, and continued to increase it, as cutures believed small pox were the sign of a diety and did not want to allow strangers in the house.
Bird Flu is a stage 3 on the pandemic stage, if it moves to stage four the world as we know it will stop. Would you go anywhere if you were going to be around people you don't know who may carry a disease that could kill you and there were no known anti virals or vaccine.
Leading Experts: 15% thought there would be a pandemic in 3 years, 90% within our children or grandchildrens lifetime, over a billion people would get sick, 1.6 million would die, global recession and depression, cost to the economy would be 1 - 3 trillion dollars, people losing jobs and medical benifits.
Spread within three weeks.
Solution: GPHIN, Global early detection system, find and contain, bio terror, shift and drift industrial accidents. Instead of a system hidden in the bowels of goverment, make it transparent, un-owned, multi languages, increase website crawls from 20 thousand to 20 million, languages from 7 to 70 (disease won't come in english, spanish, french, etc), add text/satellite confirmation.
Pre GFIN: 100% from 180 United Nations Countries
GFIN on 800K reported 75%
Balanced now at 50%
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