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As fireworks soared over the skylines
of every major city in the world, politicians, journalists, software
engineers and the public at large breathed a collective sigh of
relief that the dreaded Y2K bug had not brought critical computer
system crashes, airplanes falling from the sky, world financial
market meltdown or bug infected nuclear missile stocks hell bent
on destroying the world. Estimated at costing between 1 and 2 trillion
US Dollars, The ‘millennium bug’ turned out to be pretty
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| SARs first appeared on our TV screens in
March 2003. The virus, a severe and highly contagious form of pneumonia,
caused widespread panic particularly in areas where infection or death
had occurred. Internationally the death toll was 774 and it spread
to a total of 26 countries. Since July 2003 there has been one death,
caused by the infection of a lab worker working in a lab studying
the virus. Of course it is impossible to say whether the virus will
re-emerge again, but suffice to say that to date, it has not been
the global pandemic predicted by some. Ebola and some of the other highly contagious diseases found in sub Saharan Africa (like the Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever and Lassa fever) have so far failed to turn into the global pandemics feared. In the main, panicking about the latest global extinction event, whether it be asteroid collisions or a nuclear holocaust has invariably proved to be futile, do we really believe the latest bird flu scare is going to be anything else? |
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