If there are, are they easily available to governments, health authorities and members of the public?
Commercial software sold in stores in the 1980s on floppy discs included how to manuals. Bookstores sold books on specific software programs.
Are there book and manuals on how to fight epidemics? In the past 18 years or so humanity has encountered SARS, swine flu, Ebola, and COVID-19, among others? Surely if software programs need manuals epidemics warrant them?
I checked online. There are books about epidemics, but I did, in a cursory search, find a book on how to fight one.
If there isn't one, maybe there should be? Perhaps available online for everyone, to give humanity a bit of information head start. Perhaps including tips on detection, trip wire events, reporting centers, protocols, suggested community steps, behavioral responses that impede spread of the disease and so on. And updated regularly. Considering computers, internet, email, radio, telephone and television, shouldn't the whole array of modern information and technology be arrayed against deadly viruses, in addition to medical resources?
Or does this already exist? Do you know?
From WHO:
Managing epidemics
Link:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/managing-epidemics-interactive.pdf
New Scientist article 18 March 2020: To fight the coronavirus pandemic effectively we need lots more data
From article: The fact is: no one knows what the correct course of action is. Epidemiologists have a saying: “If you’ve seen one pandemic, you’ve seen one pandemic.”
In other words, the likelihood is that for an epidemic resulting from a disease not previously encountered, almost everything starts from scratch. A manual for fighting a pandemic effectively. A manual suggesting possible avenues for research is part of immunology and virology.
Study the Book of Leviticus...Purity Laws.
Study the Hadith... Purity Laws.
Impact on health:
Microbes are removed from the skin
Protects the mouth and throat from inflammation and the gums from supporation (pyorrhoea)
Keeps the nostrils free of inflammation and germs
Cleans the skin of the fatty substance secreted by skin glands.
I also rinse my eyes ...my ears...it has reduced inflammation...this along with wearing a mask 😷 have literally stopped the symptoms of allergies. First time in my life I am not suffering from allergies.
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