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Epidemics: The new risks
For some years now, there has been a broad consensus in the scientific community that we should be bracing ourselves for a new pandemic, probably involving an RNA virus. In 2008, Professor Didier Raoult wrote that “all specialists in this field worry about the risk of a novel respiratory virus. . . . Such a virus, highly adept at human-to-human transmission, could spark a global epidemic.” DNA viruses, too, are cause for concern, as is the capacity of pathogenic bacteria to adapt to new antibiotics by developing their own resistance mechanisms. Also preying on specialists’ minds is the potential for the emergence of a mutant influenza virus (ordinary flu kills an average of 5,000 people in France each year).
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