{"id":29227,"date":"2017-12-29T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29227"},"modified":"2017-12-29T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:40:27","slug":"this-flu-season-begins-the-risk-of-a-pandemic-2018-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29227","title":{"rendered":"This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A possible new pandemic is forming from a deadly strain of flu emerging from Australia and will be headed to the UK as the normal flow of travels would take it. Britain will perhaps be hit with the worst flu season in 50 years. Already, there are about 170,000 cases of flu reported in Australia which is more than double this season than usual.<\/p>\n

The strain of flu is called H3N2, and the number of flu deaths in Australia over winter has not yet been released, but it\u2019s thought to be the worst in many years. The last major flu\u00a0epidemic was in the 1968 pandemic which began in Hong Kong killing more than a million people worldwide.\u00a0Flu pandemics have been linked to fluctuations in climate, and new research connects the world\u2019s four most recent pandemics to the cyclical cooling of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.<\/p>\n

The cyclical\u00a0research correlating everything reveals that the four flu outbreaks that swept the world in the past 100 years all followed periods of global cooling. These were in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009 (in this last instance, the H1N1 \u201cswine flu\u201d). When sea-surface temperatures sank abnormally low, this correlates to large flu pandemics. This cooling is associated with\u00a0\u00a0La Ni\u00f1a,\u00a0a phase in a larger climate pattern. La Ni\u00f1a is the cool counterpart to El Ni\u00f1o, which is marked by unusually warm temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. It is now clear that both events alter weather patterns around the globe.<\/p>\n

While the typical Transverse Wave cycle event would be every 22.75 years, but the\u00a0Longitudinal Wave structure simultaneously exists and the complexity of these wave points to this season as turning up the risk factors for a pandemic flu season in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019 A possible new pandemic is forming from a deadly strain of flu emerging from Australia and will be headed to the UK as the normal flow of travels would take it. Britain will perhaps be hit with the worst flu season in 50 years. Already, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,93,140,17706,252,1697,17705,17704,11955,3103,607],"class_list":["post-29227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-britain","tag-climate","tag-climate-patterns","tag-el-nino","tag-flu","tag-flu-outbreak","tag-h3n2","tag-influenza","tag-la-nina","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29228,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29227\/revisions\/29228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}