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The fact is that the consequences of the pandemic are more likely to spread political violence than to stop it. Rather than laying down their weapons, some might actually use the pandemic as one. So far, coronavirus coverage in the developing world has focused on the direct consequences of the virus on healthcare systems and economies. The Economist has reported that the average American hospital has more respirators and intensive-care beds than some African countries. Kenya has intensive-care beds, Uganda 55, and Malawi only Statistics on respirators are even more alarming.

The economic loss of control might be even more devastating, for citizens and governments alike. Export rates across the world are in a slump, as are the prices of the raw materials that their budgets depend on. This year, however, the stakes are much higher. Restrictions imposed by the Stormont Executive to cut social contacts in a bid to slow the spread of the virus were left for police to enforce.

While the Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI said they adopted an approach of encouraging and explaining in a bid to make the public comply, there was also enforcement with fines handed out to those who broke the rules.

The PSNI were criticised by some for not intervening when large crowds gathered in west Belfast despite lockdown rules for the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey. Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson found that claims the handling of the event amounted to unfairness and discrimination were justified and, while not intentional, had damaged confidence in policing among some within the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland. Police Federation chairman Mark Lindsay said officers got no support from the Stormont Executive who set the rules as they tried to enforce them.

That could have been done at quite minimal cost and taken some pressure off police. Mr Lindsay said this was also exasperated by police officers not being prioritised for Covid vaccines. Earlier this month, the Policing Board was told the Police Service for Northern Ireland could lose officers over the next three years due to a budget shortfall.

The outbreak underway in West Africa began in early , and is the largest and most complex outbreak of the disease to date, according to the WHO. In December , the Ervebo vaccine was approved by the U. Food and Drug Administration. This vaccine helps to defend against the Zaire ebola virus and a global stockpile became available from January Although rabies vaccines for pets, which were introduced in the s, helped to make the disease extremely rare in the developed world, this condition remains a serious problem in India and parts of Africa.

Infection from this virus develops after a bite or scratch from an infected animal. This can result in damage to the brain and nerves. In the modern world, the deadliest virus of all may be HIV.

Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and spokesman for the Infectious Disease Society of America. An estimated 32 million people have died from HIV since the disease was first recognized in the early s. Powerful antiviral drugs have made it possible for people to live for years with HIV.

In , there were , HIV-related deaths worldwide. In , the World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox. But before that, humans battled smallpox for thousands of years, and the disease killed about 1 in 3 of those it infected, according to the BBC.

It left survivors with deep, permanent scars and, often, blindness. In populations outside of Europe, where people had little contact with the virus before visitors brought it to their regions, mortality rates were much higher. In the 20th century alone, smallpox killed million people, the BBC reported. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome HPS first gained wide attention in the U. A few months later, health authorities isolated hantavirus from a deer mouse living in the home of one of the infected people.

More than people in the U. The virus is not transmitted from one person to another, rather, people contract the disease from exposure to the droppings of infected mice. Previously, a different hantavirus caused an outbreak in the early s, during the Korean War, according to a paper in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews. While the virus was new to Western medicine when it was discovered in the U. During a typical flu season, up to , people worldwide will die from the illness, according to WHO.

But occasionally, when a new flu strain emerges, a pandemic results in a faster spread of disease and, often, higher mortality rates.

Dengue virus first appeared in the s in the Philippines and Thailand and has since spread throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, according to Clinical Microbiology Reviews. A vaccine for Dengue was approved in by the U.

Food and Drug Administration for use in children years old living in areas where dengue is common and with a confirmed history of virus infection, according to the CDC. In some countries, an approved vaccine is available for those years old, but again, recipients must have contracted a confirmed case of dengue in the past.