CRM 324 Lecture Notes - 1918 Flu Pandemic, Securitization, Industrial Revolution
5 Jun 2014
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[idea of securitizing health is not a new phenomenon, but it was not until mid-1900 that this infectious disease trickled into foreign national matters. Due to industrial revolution you had advances in trade and travel and greeting more people and therefore more infections. Quarantines were the preferred method with dealing with transmission of infectious diseases. It was an excellent candidate for a biological weapon and there were numerous. Hollywood movies dealing with disease and infection trying to predict how people would act and how they would be handled. Death toll from various diseases has been tremendous -> pretty much more than all other causes of death combined. 1918 spanish influenza (variation of swine flu) which killed 100 million people in a span of 4 months with relatively limited world travel. That"s how long it took for the spanish flu to travel the world 4 months.
