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Hazlett
English 11
10 May 2017
Infectious Diseases
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Neglected Tropical Diseases are preventable infectious diseases that put many people,
children, and countries at risk. It is important to tackle these NTD’s right now because these diseases have been neglected for too long and have attacked too many of our communities. We need to learn how to defeat these diseases. Pharmaceutical companies have donated a surplus of medicines this cause. It is to be believed that with increased awareness, greater funding from current and new donors, and the cooperation and political will of dedicated and engaged international and national partners, the goal to eliminate and control these NTDs will have been met.
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The use of pathogens by terrorists or nations is a huge threat in the biological warfare. U.S. Army authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are able to predict the outcome of numerous scenarios regarding the hostile use of microorganisms and are well equipped to predict, respond to and prevent these threats. However, another threat of laboratory strains and genetically modified organisms is coming about. Such organisms can interact with human pathogens and easily change the microbial diversity and ecology that we know of making it harder to gain knowledge on them.
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The community needs to start planning for infectious diseases for the long term. We are having a backslide in the funding for the healthcare community. The public health community is using these funds to provide information, detecting, controlling, and cures for infectious diseases. Physicians try to rapidly get information on new diseases so they can inform the public. Systems for detecting infectious disease problems must be tightly connected to the control of them. Preventing infectious diseases requires tools, and developing and evaluating new ones. Mos of the factors that contribute to infectious diseases will go up in the near future and prevention will need global efforts. WE need to make a long term commitment to address infectious diseases to help prevent them.
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The list of infectious diseases that could leap from remote areas of the world to strike
countries thousands of miles away is growing. Now longstanding worries that such deadly viruses as Ebola might be carried from Africa to the United States and elsewhere have been joined by new concerns. These concerns include, among others: potentially dangerous strains of avian flu recently detected in China; a newly discovered and often lethal lung disease, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, which has so far been found mostly in Saudi Arabia; multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis that are very difficult to treat; and a painful mosquito-borne viral disease known as Chikungunya fever, which was first detected in Africa, spread to Asia and Europe, and recently invaded the Caribbean. Beyond these natural threats lurk man-made threats, such as biological weapons that could kill millions and the danger that deadly pathogens being studied in laboratories might escape confinement or be deliberately released to set off a pandemic. A relatively small investment can get this health security initiative off the ground.
Izadi, Elahe. “We may have doomed the Neanderthals with our nasty human diseases.”
Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2016. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A449153819/OVIC?u=lom_accessmich&xid=df2dc852. Accessed 16 May 2017.
We don’t know how neanderthals went extinct but competition with homo sapiens
and climate change may have played roles. The neanderthals may have adapted to the environment where they were or been infected by diseases homo sapiens left for them. There’s no hard evidence so far showing that ancestor homo sapiens passed these diseases on to Neanderthals but there is a chance. Research suggests some infectious diseases are actually much older than previously believed.
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2001, p. 224. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A73828057/OVIC?u=lom_accessmich&xid=3357d5a8. Accessed 11 May 2017.
The global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been inadequate in our developing
world. Research has indicated that there are effective interventions that can improve health in the interim. We need to consider how important the intervention is to HIV spread. Next we need to be able to change and figure out how to make feasibility of success accessible in populations. This furthermore needs to be cost-effective. The interventions with the highest impact is female sex worker peer-mediated education programs in developing countries. Half of the transmitting from mother-to-child is from breastfeeding. Female condoms may become effective alternatives to male condoms in preventing HIV transmission.
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Malaria research is starting to be swept into the mainstream. Despite malaria’s horrific
handwork it has been hard to get support to research a disease that doesn’t happen here. But now there is millions of dollars of funding going to disease research in Africa. As Western economies have boomed charities have been overcome with donations. The research for malaria welcomes the support, scientifically the time is ripe for a fresh attack. Scientists need all of the tools they can get. Pesticides and other barriers against mosquitos help, but a malaria vaccine would be the ultimate weapon.
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Concerted efforts that have been made to prevent and control non-combinable disease to
have a born fruitful outcome. This remarkable progress has been registered through the expansion of healthcare facilities, deployment of healthcare professionals, introduction of modern medical equipment and distribution of sufficient medicine. Attention needed has been given to the prevention of diabetes, cardiac problems, asthma, cancer, and many others.
“Scientists highlight deadly health risks of climate change.” CNN Wire, 17 Feb. 2017.
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The future is expected to hold more deadly heat waves, the fast spread of certain
infectious diseases and humungous food shortages. These events could cause premature deaths. A meeting where donald trump said that human activity and climate change are related has caused experts to bring alarm to this. Of all the climate-related deaths heat stress is the cause of the most. There is a clear warming increase by year that will affect us in the long run.
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Science, vol. 281, no. 5375, 1998, p. 353+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context,
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Global disease eradication and disease elimination from localized areas are being
promoted and studied for infectious diseases. The emergence of the HIV epidemic has greatly amplified the importance of syphilis as a health problem in the united states. Congenital syphilis is a potentially fatal disease that also can cause severe, persistent neurologic sequelae. But even so, syphilis meets all the basic requirements for a disease susceptible to elimination. Several new scientific advances are likely to facilitate a renewed effort to eliminate syphilis. Elimination of syphilis in the united states would be a far-reaching accomplishment for us as a society.