With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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