Urban Development 2120

CHAPTER 7

Biological Risk Assessment

Natural Progression

The close proximity and interaction with other people accompanying the increase in the world’s population greatly increases the risk of cross contamination should biological problems occur. There have been recent outbreaks of diseases such as the Ebola virus in West Africa, and while this was contained, it did cost many lives and demonstrated how very quickly such an infection could spread across the globe. Major outbreaks of disease have also occurred in China, but with the ability of the authorities to keep this under the radar, even outbreaks of bird flu were made public only long after the problem emerged. One must also remember the massive impact of the bubonic plague caused in that ...