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How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Avian flu, SARS, anthrax, monkey pox, and West Nile virus are all fresh enough that they make other relatively recent insurgents such as hantavirus, Lyme disease, multiple-drug-resistant TB, and even HIV seem like seasoned veterans. Emerging pathogens consume an ever-increasing amount of limited public health resources. The Centers for Disease Control have recently invested many millions of dollars in state-of-the-art command centers to track new outbreaks.

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While other killers, such as Ebola, hantavirus, and E. coli, seem to dominate the headlines, they are insignificant as a cause of disability and death in comparison. For instance, while hantavirus killed 60 and E. coli approximately 10 in 1993-94, the flu killed tens of thousands, some 60,000 in 1993 alone. A flu virus induced national crisis is completely plausible. In 1999 the flu struck certain regions in the United States with exceptional ferocity, the East Coast bearing the brunt of the damage. Essentially, the entire state of of Connecticut was disabled.

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This disease, originally called Korean Hemorrhagic Fever, belongs to the Bunyavirus family and has a genus of its own, hantavirus, with three types identified. In 1993, an emerging hantavirus was identified in New Mexico, which caused headline news over an emerging viral threat. It attacks the kidneys and can cause lung inflammation, internal bleeding, and death. Next to AIDS, Ebola virus—because of its terrifying consequences—has become the virus most imprinted on contemporary consciousness.

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Toxic shock syndrome, flesh-eating strep, and hantavirus would horrify the American public, presaging the Ebola scare. Most terrifying of all, we would discover that our arsenal of antibiotics could not last forever, that bacteria were developing resistance with frightening speed. Although the war against infection is the arena in which modern medicine has shown its greatest power, the war is so ill conceived that it can never be won. Its premise is that microbes attack from out there, that they are the causes of infectious disease.

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Within the past twenty-five years, we have seen a rash of new diseases arising, including Ebola, AIDS, hepatitis C, Lyme disease, and hantavirus, and no doubt we will see more emerge in coining years. There is much we don't know about these emerging diseases, but we know they take a terrifying toll on humanity. And we know that many of these new pathogens seem to stem from horizontal gene transfer. This means they have come from other species and have jumped to us. This happens rarely in Nature, which is fortunate, because when it does, the results can be disastrous.

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Eventually, they were able to identify the pathogen —the hantavirus (named after the Hanta River in Korea where it was originally discovered) —and trace its mechanism of transmission.46 It spreads through the feces and urine of a particular deer mouse, a brown, big-eared rodent with a white belly and tail, and huge black eyes. The mouse had in recent months mysteriously appeared in great numbers, leaving its droppings in kitchens and playgrounds. Scientists now had a crucial piece of the puzzle.

Together, the scientists and the medicine men were now able to understand more fully how, in the interconnectedness of all life, the hantavirus had spread. By joining forces, they had taken a step forward in understanding the ecology of this disease. GLOBAL HEALTH, THE POPULATION EXPLOSION, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN At the center of all of the earth's environmental problems there stand two of the most dogged realities of the modern world—unsustainable population growth and unsustainable levels of consumption.

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For instance, while hantavirus killed 60 and E. coli approximately 10 in 1993-94, the flu killed tens of thousands, some 60,000 in 1993 alone. A flu virus induced national crisis is completely plausible. In 1999 the flu struck certain regions in the United States with exceptional ferocity, the East Coast bearing the brunt of the damage. Essentially, the entire state of of Connecticut was disabled. Hospitals were overwhelmed, and admissions were halted. This was a modern-day medical catastrophe. Thus, the flu is the number one agent that must be derailed in the event of crisis.

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A little more then a decade later, "new" threats began emerging, one after the other: AIDS, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus; genital herpes, caused by a virus in the herpes family; hepatitis C and other viral diseases, including a new strain of influenza A; and deadly hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola and hantavirus. Other nonviral infectious agents were not sitting around quietly either.

In addition, ongoing outbreaks of fatal viruses such as Ebola in Africa in 1976, hantavirus in New Mexico in 1993, increasing fatalities caused by hemorrhagic dengue fever in Southeast Asia, and West Nile fever in New York in 1999, startled the medical profession and shocked the world. Somehow we forgot that new viral strains surface regularly and that science and modern medicine are not infallible all of the time. To make matters worse, evidence mounted and suggested that viruses were causing other diseases.

In 1993, an emerging hantavirus was identified in New Mexico, which caused headline news over an emerging viral threat. It attacks the kidneys and can cause lung inflammation, internal bleeding, and death. Next to AIDS, Ebola virus—because of its terrifying consequences—has become the virus most imprinted on contemporary consciousness. There are three types of Ebola, which is also a bleeding fever like Hanta and dengue, but only two types affect humans; the other known type infects only monkeys.

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