Why Predicting The Next Influenza Pandemic Is So Difficult - And How Scientists Can Prepare

Hmm this seems to imply that virus vectors pose a serious threat to the survival of humanity. How do we normally control the risk to human health from some animal vector of a serious disease, like malaria or bubonic plague. Maybe we should be consistent in our process and control the primary carriers of influenza if it really poses this large a threat to humanity. I watched a investigation on the 1920s pandemic, and they traced it back to the British camp in in WWI. Three components were needed allow a breeding ground for such an infectious strain of influenza: a high population density of birds in proximity to a high population density of pigs in close proximity to a high population density of at risk humans. This camp had them all including a war field hospital. So alternately, maybe a better control of the pathways for exposure could be assessed also, or isolation of those areas where control of these pathways for exposure is not instituted. If a person has a potential disease we isolate them until we know they are clear. Maybe we should consider this, break the chain as it were, since a pandemic is really brought about through a chain of events linked back to only 1 human, pig or bird carrier (it functions like a chain letter amongst a group of crazy people).