The ones with most risk are airborne.
Infectious organisms can travel in humans, food and insects ... You can't stop disease from crossing borders.
What we see in brazil now is what could occur in colombia and other countries in the next few months and it's very alarming.
They urinate and defecate on the rice, which makes the uncooked rice a source of human infection.
When the rains are over, the rats then come closer to humans to steal grains.
But social media has become active ... And that's an area that's difficult to control.
If a health system cannot handle (an outbreak), there's pandemonium.
Infectious agents travel around in humans many times within their incubation period.
Flooding is occurring with increased frequency.
The rodents that live there can't get food and go into human areas for food.
Lassa fever occurs because people live in the forest and destroy it for farming.
The world looks for an authority.
We have to deal with that as a reality, it's difficult to manage health worker migration.
If (an infection) stays local, it burns out, people learn what to do.
All these (factors) came together and led to an outbreak.
