2. How far can be diseases be predicted and mitigated against?
Key Idea 4a: Increasing global mobility impacts the diffusion of disease and the ability to respond to it.
Learning Objectives:
To investigate how increasing global mobility increases the diffusion of disease but also enables organisations like the WHO and other NGO’s to respond to it more effectively.
Study the 2009 flu pandemic – rate of spread and pattern of outbreak and how it was dealt with.
Why do you think the threat of pandemics increased in the last 40 years?

3. Why pandemics spread: watch + interactive
Diseases are more mobile than previously, because we are more mobile than before … in a globalised world, increasingly connected by an integrated transport system there is strong evidence to suggest that disease can spread quickly via roads at the national scale + airports at regional/global scale.
Why pandemics spread: watch + interactive
In a globalised world, increasingly connected by an integrated transport system there is strong evidence to suggest that disease can spread quickly via roads at the national scale + airports at regional/global scale.

4. H1N1 cases April 2009
cases May 2009

5. H1N1 cases June 2009
H1N1 cases July 2009
Watch this clip
And this one
And this clip

6. Read this article
Read page 354 in AQA text book and produce a fact-file about the Swine Flu pandemic
Fact file – where it started; how it spread; rates of spread
How it was managed WHO and NGOs

10. Do you need to do some more research on other diseases?