This morning, seizing the opportunity of returning to school, the subject of influenza was required in each subject review and one that we read an article writer José Saramago about the epidemic, the note is quite good, I leave here so that you take a look and so they are informed and fully aware of the consequences of capitalism brings to our health.
Flu (1) By José Saramago
do not know anything about it and the experience of having lived with pigs in childhood and adolescence does not help anything. That was more a family of human-animal hybrid than anything else. But carefully read the newspapers, hear and see reports of radio and television, and thanks to a providential reading has helped me better understand the racks of the root causes of the anticipated pandemic, maybe I can bring here any of the information that turn clear to the reader. Long ago in virology specialists are convinced that intensive farming system in southern China is the main vector of mutation Influenza: both the "drift" seasonal and episodic "exchange" genomic. Six years ago Science magazine published an article important in showing that, after years of stability, the bird flu virus in North America had made a rapid evolutionary leap. Industrialization, big business, livestock production broke what had hitherto been China's natural monopoly in the evolution of flu. In recent decades, the livestock sector was transformed into something more like the petrochemical industry to the bucolic family farm textbooks in school are pleased to describe ...
In 1966, for example, the U.S. had 53 million pigs distributed in a million farms. Currently, 65 million hogs are concentrated in 65,000 facilities. That means moving from the old pens and Cyclops fecal hell today, where, between the dung and sweltering heat, ready to share pathogens with lightning speed, they add up tens of millions of animals rather than weakened immune systems.
is not certainly the only cause, but can not be ignored. Return to the issue.
go on. Last year, a commission convened by the Pew Research Center published a report on the "production industrial farm animal, which drew attention to the serious danger that the continued circulation of virus, characteristic of large sticks or herds, increasing the chances of a new virus by processes of mutation or recombination, which could generate more efficient virus transmission between humans. " The commission also warned that the promiscuous use of antibiotics in pig factories - cheaper than in human environments - was providing estafilocóquicas resistant infections rise, while discharges of sewage generated manifestations of Escherichia coli and Pfiesteria (the protozoan that killed thousands of fish in North Carolina estuaries and sickened dozens of fishermen).
Any improvement in the ecology of this new pathogenic agent would have to face the monstrous power of big business conglomerates poultry and livestock, such as Smithfield Farms (pork and beef) and Tyson (chicken). The committee spoke of a systematic obstruction of investigations by large companies, including nothing demure about threats to suppress the financing of the researchers who cooperated with the commission. This is a very global industry and political influence. Just as the giant Charoen Pokphand poultry, based in Bangkok, was able to thwart the investigation of his role in the spread of bird flu in Southeast Asia, most likely the forensic epidemiology of the outbreak of swine flu game against the stone wall of the pork industry. That does not mean that you will not ever find the finger, and Mexican newspapers circulating in the rumor of an influenza epicenter located in a giant Smithfield subsidiary in the state of Veracruz. But most important is the forest, not the trees: the pandemic failed strategy of the World Health Organization, the progressive deterioration of the global public health, the gag imposed by the large pharmaceutical corporations to vital medicines and planetary catastrophe that industrial livestock production is ecologically mindless.
As noted, the infections are much more complicated than that between a presumably fatal virus in the lungs of a city caught in the web of material interests and the ruthlessness of big business. Everything is catching everything. The first death, long time ago was that of honesty. But can he really be asked to honor crime? Who will go?
Note: the article was copied from: http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/
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