{"id":6574,"date":"2024-05-14T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:48:25","slug":"future-pandemics-will-have-the-same-human-causes-as-ancient-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/14\/future-pandemics-will-have-the-same-human-causes-as-ancient-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Pandemics Will Have The Same Human Causes As Ancient Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/future-pandemics-will-have-the-same-human-causes-as-ancient-outbreaks?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2coww46tO0XbjhD2NYQQNTqKashkhcAueAGbZ4nBpbj5OlugxyewRi1eI_aem_AfuUo4iG-5RvmS-aEYMLgaTfh6aSzpno1MTbkQYngkRImEbsOzagPX-YZdP_9KSI0-BYpIiSZGqRtJ2ZVqDkz6zz\">Discovery Magazine<\/a> The changes that came with the transition from foraging to farming paved the way for disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2000, the world has experienced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vhf\/ebola\/history\/chronology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15 novel Ebola epidemics<\/a>, the global spread of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.cdc.gov\/www_cdc_gov\/flu\/pandemic-resources\/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html#:%7E:text=From%20April%2012%2C%202009%20to,the%20(H1N1)pdm09%20virus.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1918-like influenza strain<\/a>&nbsp;and major outbreaks of three new and unusually deadly coronavirus infections:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/orr\/timeline\/events\/sars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SARS<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/orr\/timeline\/events\/mers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MERS<\/a>&nbsp;and, of course,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>. Every year, researchers discover&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2020.08.021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two or three entirely new pathogens<\/a>: the viruses, bacteria and microparasites that sicken and kill people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some of these discoveries reflect better detection methods, genetic studies confirm that most of these pathogens are indeed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/B978-0-12-800049-6.00293-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new to the human species<\/a>. Even more troubling, these diseases are appearing at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2020.08.021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an increasing rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/future-pandemics-will-have-the-same-human-causes-as-ancient-outbreaks?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2coww46tO0XbjhD2NYQQNTqKashkhcAueAGbZ4nBpbj5OlugxyewRi1eI_aem_AfuUo4iG-5RvmS-aEYMLgaTfh6aSzpno1MTbkQYngkRImEbsOzagPX-YZdP_9KSI0-BYpIiSZGqRtJ2ZVqDkz6zz\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery Magazine The changes that came with the transition from foraging to farming paved the way for disease. The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century. Since 2000, the world has experienced&nbsp;15 novel Ebola epidemics, the global spread of a&nbsp;1918-like influenza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}