Plan text: The United States federal government should provide the necessary assistance to the Center for Disease Control to establish and expand Global Disease Detection Center’s in topically designated areas.
1AC OUTLINE
OBSERVATION ONE: INHERENCY
THE CDC HAS ALREADY MASSIVELY INCREASED FUNDING FOR SURVEILLANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, BUT THIS ONLY GOES TO 42 OF THE 48 AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
To assist in responding to HPAI H5N1 outbreaks… commodities for surveillance and response efforts.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE STATUS QUO’S MEASURES ARE NOT NUANCED ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THE THREAT, FOCUSSING ON SHORT SIGHTED CHECKLISTS, RATHER THAN THE BROAD GOAL OF PREPAREDNESS. DISEASES WILL SPREAD GLOBALLY, KILL MILLIONS, AND COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY IF WE CONTINUE WITH THE STATUS QUO.
Langevin, Head of the House Committee on Homeland Security, 9/26/07
(Rep. James, FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, lexis)
Today we'll explore what it takes to prepare for and… We cannot afford for this to ever happen again.
AND EVEN IF THESE MEASURES ARE EFFECTIVE THEY LEAVE CRUCIAL HOLES THAT ENABLE WORLDWIDE SPREAD—SURVEILLANCE IN EVERY AFRICAN COUNTRY IS KEY.
Heymann and Rodier, World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Programmes and the WHO Operational Support Team to the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network , 2004
(David and Guenael, Global Surveillance, National Surveillance, and SARS, Emerging Infectious Diseases, printed online: Medscape Today, 2004, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/467371)
The international response to the severe acute respiratory… one nation´s surveillance and response systems fail.
ADVANTAGE ONE: DISEASE
A NEW DISEASE IS INEVITABLE—EMERGING DISEASES ARE SPREADING AT RAPID PACE AND WILL KILL BILLIONS—SURVEILLANCE IS CRUCIAL TO CONTAIN THESE OUTBREAKS.
Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly… health rules, to mitigate such risks.
AFRICA IS THE MOST LIKELY SPOT FOR EMERGING DISEASES—ECOLOGICAL CLIMATE AND A UNIQUE MIXTURE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS EXACERBATES THE THREAT—EXPERT STUDIES PROVE.
AfricaNews, April 27, 2006
(“Animal and Plant Diseases a Growing Threat”, lexis)
A UK government programme has warned that animal diseases… 30 countries contributed to the 18-month study
THESE DISEASES CAUSE EXTINCTION.
South ChinaMorning Post, 1996
(Dr. Ben-Abraham is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Biosante Pharmaceuticals Inc., January 4, lexis)
SPECIFICALLY, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IS THE MOST LIKELY SPOT FOR AN AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK—AVIAN FLU WILL SYNERGIZE WITH EXISTING DISEASE CAUSING MASSIVE SPREAD.
In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, avian flu… effort to develop a "world vaccine".
KEYMUTATIONS IN THE VIRUS MAKE TRANSMITION MORE LIKELY
Forbes, October 4, 2007
(“Key Viral Change Could Help Bird Flu Spread”, lexis)
U.S. scientists say they’ve spotted a crucial step the deadly H5N1…the ones closest to becoming a human virus.
CURRENT RESPONSE MECHANISMS ARE FAILING TO ADEQUATELY PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK—THE IMPACT TO THE STATUS QUO IS MILLIONS OF DEATHS.
Bird flu in poultry and wild birds spread to 60 countries but is entrenched only in six because of improved and faster responses,… During the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst in history, more than 40 million people died.
Flu pandemics collapse the resiliency of the global economy.
The pandemic-related collapse of worldwide trade…would be avoided, maybe even banned.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE CAUSES EXTINCTION.
Bearden, Director of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists, 2000
(T. E., Fellow Emeritus of the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study "The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly," June 12)
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions… the biosphere, at least for many decades.
ADVANTAGE TWO: BIOTERRORISM
THE US IS CURRENTLY FACING A SHORTAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS WHO HAVE AHD FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH MANY PATHOGENS THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE USED AS BIOWEAPONS—THIS PREVENTS RAPID DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
Katz, doctoral candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, 2002
(Rebecca, The Washington Quarterly, “Public Health Preparedness: The Best Defense against Biological Weapons,” Summer, vol. 25, no. 3, p.69, Lexis-Nexis Universe)
TRAINING When Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome …, and set up collaborative efforts
Access to biological weapons is easier and makes terrorsm more likely. Conventional attacks take too long to plan out while a biological attacks are far simpler.
Terrorist groups exist to promote religious, ethnic, political… continue to infect travellers and local people and remain a possible biological weapon.32
BIOTERRORISM CAUSES EXTINCTION.
Ochs, member of the Depleted Uranium Task force of the Military Toxics Project and the Chemical Weapons Working Group, 2002
(Richard, “BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY”, 7/9, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html)
Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically… The game is over. If patriotism would extinguish humanity, then patriotism is the highest of all crimes.
AND, RETALIATION AFTER A TERRORIST ATTACK SPARKS MULTIPLE SCENARIOS FOR NUCLEAR WAR.
The combination of horror and outrage… diplomatic fire beginning to burn under the Russians and the Chinese
SOLVENCY:
INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TRAINED PERSONEL IS CRUCIAL TO CREATE A STRONG PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE THAT is capable of minimizing the casualties from a bioterrorist attack AND DISEASE OUTBREAK. THE CDC’S GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM PROVIDES A CRUCIAL SPOT FOR THIS TRAINING.
Smolinski et al, Director of the Global Health & Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative, '03
(Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html)
As described earlier, surveillance of and,,, disease- or problem-specific areas.
REVERSING CDC FUNDING CUTS IS KEY TO ENHANCE RESEARCH CAPABILITIES AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTION SYSTEMS.
In a press release distributed at the Tuesday… respiratory syndrome] and the terrorism threat."
THE CDC’S INVESTIGATIVE EXPERTISE AND LABORATORY SUPPORT IS COMPARATIVELY BETTER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD’S. INEFFECTIVE SURVEILLANCE UNDERMINES INTERNATIONAL OUTBREAK MISSIONS AND MAKES CONTAINMENT OF NEW AND EMERGING DISEASES IMPOSSIBLE.
Government Accountability Office, 2001
(“Global Health: Challenges in Improving Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems”, August, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01722.pdf)
Ineffective routine surveillance seriously…pathogens more likely in developing countries.
THE CDC’S ASSISTANCE IS KEY TO CURTAIL THE SPREAD OF ZOONOTIC DISEASES.
Thompson, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, 2002
(Tommy, “Protecting the Nation's Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC's Global Infectious Disease Strategy”, http://www.cdc.gov/globalidplan/global_id_plan.pdf)
In addition, CDC will encourage… zoonotic or vectorborne diseases.
EXPANDING CDC SURVEILLANCE LABS IS KEY TO TRAIN RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS CAPABLE OF CONTAINING AN AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK.
Blount, Director of the Office of Global Health, May 2, 2007
(Stephen B., “Testimony before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies, May, 2, http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2007/05/t20070502a.html)
Currently, the US and the rest of the world… communication channels so we can respond effectively.
2AC Food Security Add-on:
Zoonotic diseases erode food security
Domenech et al, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006
[Joseph, “Regional and International Approaches on Prevention and Control of Animal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1081 (1), 90-107, October, Blackwell-Synergy
TADs impose major social… commodities, and products of animal origin
These conflict cause worldwide nuclear war
William H. Calvin, Professor at University fo Washington, 1998
[Atlantic Monthly]
the population-crash scenario is surely…warming from the north atlantic.
Plan text: The United States federal government should provide the necessary assistance to the Center for Disease Control to establish and expand Global Disease Detection Center’s in topically designated areas.
1AC OUTLINE
OBSERVATION ONE: INHERENCY
THE CDC HAS ALREADY MASSIVELY INCREASED FUNDING FOR SURVEILLANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, BUT THIS ONLY GOES TO 42 OF THE 48 AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
U.S. Department of State, 11/28/07
(“U.S. Government Support to Combat Avian and Pandemic Influenza”, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/95934.pdf)
To assist in responding to HPAI H5N1 outbreaks… commodities for surveillance and response efforts.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE STATUS QUO’S MEASURES ARE NOT NUANCED ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THE THREAT, FOCUSSING ON SHORT SIGHTED CHECKLISTS, RATHER THAN THE BROAD GOAL OF PREPAREDNESS. DISEASES WILL SPREAD GLOBALLY, KILL MILLIONS, AND COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY IF WE CONTINUE WITH THE STATUS QUO.
Langevin, Head of the House Committee on Homeland Security, 9/26/07
(Rep. James, FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, lexis)
Today we'll explore what it takes to prepare for and… We cannot afford for this to ever happen again.
AND EVEN IF THESE MEASURES ARE EFFECTIVE THEY LEAVE CRUCIAL HOLES THAT ENABLE WORLDWIDE SPREAD—SURVEILLANCE IN EVERY AFRICAN COUNTRY IS KEY.
Heymann and Rodier, World Health Organization, Communicable Disease Programmes and the WHO Operational Support Team to the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network , 2004
(David and Guenael, Global Surveillance, National Surveillance, and SARS, Emerging Infectious Diseases, printed online: Medscape Today, 2004, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/467371)
The international response to the severe acute respiratory… one nation´s surveillance and response systems fail.
ADVANTAGE ONE: DISEASE
A NEW DISEASE IS INEVITABLE—EMERGING DISEASES ARE SPREADING AT RAPID PACE AND WILL KILL BILLIONS—SURVEILLANCE IS CRUCIAL TO CONTAIN THESE OUTBREAKS.
Reuters, August 23, 2007
(“UN: Diseases Spreading Faster Than Ever”, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/08/23/health.un.reut/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly… health rules, to mitigate such risks.
AFRICA IS THE MOST LIKELY SPOT FOR EMERGING DISEASES—ECOLOGICAL CLIMATE AND A UNIQUE MIXTURE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS EXACERBATES THE THREAT—EXPERT STUDIES PROVE.
Africa News, April 27, 2006
(“Animal and Plant Diseases a Growing Threat”, lexis)
A UK government programme has warned that animal diseases… 30 countries contributed to the 18-month study
THESE DISEASES CAUSE EXTINCTION.
South China Morning Post, 1996
(Dr. Ben-Abraham is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Biosante Pharmaceuticals Inc., January 4, lexis)
SPECIFICALLY, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IS THE MOST LIKELY SPOT FOR AN AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK—AVIAN FLU WILL SYNERGIZE WITH EXISTING DISEASE CAUSING MASSIVE SPREAD.
Davis, Professor of History at U of California and author on the Avian Flu, February 7, 2007
(Mike, THE GUARDIAN, “The plague of bird flu will erupt out of Java, not Suffolk”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2007340,00.html)
In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, avian flu… effort to develop a "world vaccine".
KEYMUTATIONS IN THE VIRUS MAKE TRANSMITION MORE LIKELY
Forbes, October 4, 2007
(“Key Viral Change Could Help Bird Flu Spread”, lexis)
U.S. scientists say they’ve spotted a crucial step the deadly H5N1…the ones closest to becoming a human virus.
CURRENT RESPONSE MECHANISMS ARE FAILING TO ADEQUATELY PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK—THE IMPACT TO THE STATUS QUO IS MILLIONS OF DEATHS.
Canada Press, 12/1/07
(“Bird flu spreads to 60 countries, pandemic risk still high: UN”, http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcH2a_3US5WIGaTgFXE-tCJg7jyQ)
Bird flu in poultry and wild birds spread to 60 countries but is entrenched only in six because of improved and faster responses,…
During the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst in history, more than 40 million people died.
Flu pandemics collapse the resiliency of the global economy.
Osterholm, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Policy at U of Minnesota, 2005
(Michael T., FOREIGN AFFAIRS, “Preparing for the Next Pandemic”, July/August, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050701faessay84402/michael-t-osterholm/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic.html)
The pandemic-related collapse of worldwide trade…would be avoided, maybe even banned.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE CAUSES EXTINCTION.
Bearden, Director of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists, 2000
(T. E., Fellow Emeritus of the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study "The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly," June 12)
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions… the biosphere, at least for many decades.
ADVANTAGE TWO: BIOTERRORISM
THE US IS CURRENTLY FACING A SHORTAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS WHO HAVE AHD FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH MANY PATHOGENS THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE USED AS BIOWEAPONS—THIS PREVENTS RAPID DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
Katz, doctoral candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, 2002
(Rebecca, The Washington Quarterly, “Public Health Preparedness: The Best Defense against Biological Weapons,” Summer, vol. 25, no. 3, p.69, Lexis-Nexis Universe)
TRAINING When Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome …, and set up collaborative efforts
Access to biological weapons is easier and makes terrorsm more likely. Conventional attacks take too long to plan out while a biological attacks are far simpler.
Njuguna, Masters in Biotechnology and prominent contributor on bioweapons to Bonn International Center, 2005
(James Thuo, AFRICAN SECURITY REVIEW, Vol. 14, No. 1, “Evaluating the threat of biological weapons in Eastern Africa”, http://www.iss.co.za/index.php?link_id=3&slink_id=1967&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3)
Terrorist groups exist to promote religious, ethnic, political… continue to infect travellers and local people and remain a possible biological weapon.32
BIOTERRORISM CAUSES EXTINCTION.
Ochs, member of the Depleted Uranium Task force of the Military Toxics Project and the Chemical Weapons Working Group, 2002
(Richard, “BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY”, 7/9, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html)
Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically… The game is over. If patriotism would extinguish humanity, then patriotism is the highest of all crimes.
AND, RETALIATION AFTER A TERRORIST ATTACK SPARKS MULTIPLE SCENARIOS FOR NUCLEAR WAR.
Corsi, Best Selling Author on Terrorism, 2005
(Jerome, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 4/20, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43817)
The combination of horror and outrage… diplomatic fire beginning to burn under the Russians and the Chinese
SOLVENCY:
INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TRAINED PERSONEL IS CRUCIAL TO CREATE A STRONG PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE THAT is capable of minimizing the casualties from a bioterrorist attack AND DISEASE OUTBREAK. THE CDC’S GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM PROVIDES A CRUCIAL SPOT FOR THIS TRAINING.
Smolinski et al, Director of the Global Health & Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative, '03
(Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html)
As described earlier, surveillance of and,,, disease- or problem-specific areas.
REVERSING CDC FUNDING CUTS IS KEY TO ENHANCE RESEARCH CAPABILITIES AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTION SYSTEMS.
Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2006
(“Core Programs Will Be Hurt, Watchdog Says”, http://fundcdc.org/docs/CPH%20and%20cuts%20in%20Atlanta%20paper.pdf)
In a press release distributed at the Tuesday… respiratory syndrome] and the terrorism threat."
THE CDC’S INVESTIGATIVE EXPERTISE AND LABORATORY SUPPORT IS COMPARATIVELY BETTER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD’S. INEFFECTIVE SURVEILLANCE UNDERMINES INTERNATIONAL OUTBREAK MISSIONS AND MAKES CONTAINMENT OF NEW AND EMERGING DISEASES IMPOSSIBLE.
Government Accountability Office, 2001
(“Global Health: Challenges in Improving Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems”, August, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01722.pdf)
Ineffective routine surveillance seriously… pathogens more likely in developing countries.
THE CDC’S ASSISTANCE IS KEY TO CURTAIL THE SPREAD OF ZOONOTIC DISEASES.
Thompson, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, 2002
(Tommy, “Protecting the Nation's Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC's Global Infectious Disease Strategy”, http://www.cdc.gov/globalidplan/global_id_plan.pdf)
In addition, CDC will encourage… zoonotic or vectorborne diseases.
EXPANDING CDC SURVEILLANCE LABS IS KEY TO TRAIN RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS CAPABLE OF CONTAINING AN AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK.
Blount, Director of the Office of Global Health, May 2, 2007
(Stephen B., “Testimony before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies, May, 2, http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2007/05/t20070502a.html)
Currently, the US and the rest of the world… communication channels so we can respond effectively.
2AC Food Security Add-on:
Zoonotic diseases erode food security
Domenech et al, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006
[Joseph, “Regional and International Approaches on Prevention and Control of Animal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1081 (1), 90-107, October, Blackwell-Synergy
TADs impose major social… commodities, and products of animal origin
These conflict cause worldwide nuclear war
William H. Calvin, Professor at University fo Washington, 1998
[Atlantic Monthly]
the population-crash scenario is surely…warming from the north atlantic.