Dessiner de nouvelles frontières est une entreprise coûteuse et potentiellement dangereuse, et c’est déjà assez difficile de risquer une explosion par décompression ou d’être perdu dans un trou noir sans savoir qu’il y a aussi de la lessive à faire
Shiva: The Ultimate Viral Catastrophe
[Article] Last week, the potential of airlines to act as a vector for the spread of disease was highlighted, as headlines broke that a transatlantic passenger was infected with a highly contagious, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Although the man in question publicly vowed he never intended to harm anyone, the terrifying risks to biosecurity presented by modern air travel are becoming apparent.
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Imagine a superbug, cooked up in a lab or from the depths of some rainforest somewhere. Imagine that it is airborne, virulent, has a dormant period of two days. Imagine that it is 95% deadly. Now imagine that it’s in Los Angeles International Airport.Unfortunately, this is not such a wild supposition....
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