I personally feel like the Influenza of 1918 was a major outbreak and a problem but that it was due to limited resources and very little knowledge about the virus. Although there is vaccine for this flu virus of 1918 that was seen to have shown reduced risk of getting the flu. Although, there has been various bad outbreaks of this flu virus I do think it is a possibly it could have another major outbreak but I feel as if we are equipped and have a good enough healthcare system that we would be able to take care of it and stop the spread of infection before it got totally out of control.
When I think of the “next big one”, I think of something totally uncontrollable and deadly. It will be something we have very little knowledge about and something that just kind of sneaks up on us. Today we do have pretty good resources and knowledge with all of the past research that has been done and with all of the research still going on today that when something comes up expectantly we will have the resources to control it. A lot has changed over the years but one thing that hasn’t is that an estimated seventy-five percent of emerging infectious diseases are of animal origin (ecohealthline). So when I see numbers like this it makes me feel like something new will emerge from an animal species, which could be extremely deadly and infectious making it hard for us to control because we will have very little knowledge about it.
Kessler, Robert. “Outbreak: Pandemic Strikes”, https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2018/05/outbreak-pandemic-strikes.