What Other Diseases?

Hepatitis (I guess you can get it from contaminated drinking water but I am not sure).

Edited by ps36

Inevitably somewhere some people will be harmed by some leement of their pandemic survival plans. For example failures in proper home food canning procedures makes it plausible that someone will get botulism.

Teres probably araft of things that may cause people problems if we get to a point where malnutrition starts to set in as well.

Even long term problems like heart disease could come into this, for example as some people who stop eating poultry will switch to red meat.

From water utilities shutting down, I would think there would be an increase in typhoid, cholera, dysentery, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis from drinking contaminated water. Poor sanitation could cause scabies, conjunctivitis, skin ulcers. I guess there could also be a problem with parasites like hookworm.

elbows wrote: Inevitably somewhere some people will be harmed by some leement of their pandemic survival plans. For example failures in proper home food canning procedures makes it plausible that someone will get botulism. Teres probably araft of things that may cause people problems if we get to a point where malnutrition starts to set in as well. Even long term problems like heart disease could come into this, for example as some people who stop eating poultry will switch to red meat.

elbows, there is no verified link between red meat and heart disease.  It is now commonly accepted that a diet low in refined carbohydrates and relatively high in protein will help prevent heart disease.

Consider the eskimos of the north.  In the seven to eight cold months on their calender they would eat mucktuk (blubber).  Prior to the introduction of flour to their diet, they had absolutely no arteriosclerosis.  Heart disease was totally unknown to them.  After the introduction of flour and related products, they started developing heart disease and died of heart attacks.