{"id":11,"date":"2008-08-13T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/08\/13\/epidemic-part-6-final\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:19:52","slug":"epidemic-part-6-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/08\/13\/epidemic-part-6-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic! part 6 (final)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last post related to <em>Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease<\/em> edited by Rob DeSalle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Different cultures perceive disease differently,&#8221; and &#8220;Successful control of that disease requires understanding these differences.&#8221; [p. 155] At StopBadware.org, we&#8217;re seeing this as we try to understand how and why malware is perceived differently in China than in the U.S. and Europe.<\/li>\n<li>The only way to control global epidemics is to integrate public health concepts into every aspect of society (health delivery, education, urban planning, agriculture, industry, etc.) <em>and<\/em> for nations, industries, etc., to coordinate their efforts with each other for surveillance, monitoring, and response. [p. 168] There are definitely some aspects of this happening in the IT security world, such as the recent coordinated DNS patch response, but far more needs to be done.<\/li>\n<li>At a more local level, an essay in the book describes New York City&#8217;s efforts to combat TB and AIDS via a coordinated local response including public education campaigns, free clinics, needle exchanges, etc. [p. 171-175] Can we learn from this? What about free &#8220;get your PC checked for up-to-date patches and security software&#8221; clinics? Coordinated, extensive public awareness campaigns? Free anti-malware software provided by government agencies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This entry is part of a series. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/06\/20\/the-public-health-of-the-internet\/\">introduction<\/a> for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post related to Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease edited by Rob DeSalle. &#8220;Different cultures perceive disease differently,&#8221; and &#8220;Successful control of that disease requires understanding these differences.&#8221; [p. 155] At StopBadware.org, we&#8217;re seeing this as we try to understand how and why malware is perceived differently in China than in the U.S. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}