PREDICT Trying to Predict Next SARS, MERS, Flu Strain

We humans may be the apex of the food chain and have the power to reshape the world

But at the lower bases sight unseen our microbe and viral enemies swirled.

Ebola with its almost certain fatality rate has captured the attention of the media and the world’s press

As nations in Western Africa scramble to its spread to other victims suppress.

Ebola at least until its RNA mutates and enables it to become airborne is in a developed nation hard to spread

But in Africa beset by poverty and poor hygiene any with close contact even with a body is more likely than not soon dead

Big Pharma has most likely made the calculation that there is not enough wealth in Africa to pay for Ebola vaccine research

So for many years Africa in the case of Ebola vaccines has been left in the lurch

Short sighted as death in this flat world is only a plane trip away

Hard to keep the deadly virus here completely at bay

The news out of the CDC on a whole host of airborne viruses should give us some relief

To prevent another SARS, MERS, or flu pandemic grief

PREDICT is what the CDC is trying to do, to the next pandemic assess

That airborne could kill thousands before drugs and quarantines could arrest

Even talking could airborne viruses transmit

Not as fatal as Ebola but still deadly enough to give us the fits

While PREDICT continues to the virus landscape survey

We should heed our mothers to wash our hands many times a day

Buy a designer surgical mask in colors to match our mood or clothes

Simple steps to keep viruses from entering our mouths or nose

Instead of shaking hands to a friend or stranger greet

Use our elbow touch since it cannot our mouths begin to meet

© November 17, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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