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This would mean that no one in the city has ever had contact with the disease.
If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city the disease won't find much resistance and will begin spreading from person to person, and in no time it will disseminate throughout the community.
We are in a city where more than 90 percent of the population has defenses against the measles, which means that they either had the disease, survived, and developed natural defenses; or that they had been immunized against measles.
If one day, a person sick with the measles appears in this city, the disease will find much more resistance and won't be transmitted that much from person to person.
People who are vaccinated are not only protecting themselves, but by blocking the dissemination of the disease within the community, they are indirectly protecting the people in this community who are not vaccinated.
They create a kind of protective shield which prevents them from coming in contact with the disease, so that these people are protected.
Many people in the community depend almost exclusively on this herd immunity to be protected against disease.
They are our parents, our siblings, our acquaintances, who may have a disease, or take medication that lowers their defenses.
If the percentage of the population in a vaccinated community is below this threshold number, the disease will begin to spread more freely and may generate an outbreak of this disease within the community.
Now, ruminating about upsetting events in this way can easily become a habit, and it's a very costly one, because by spending so much time focused on upsetting and negative thoughts, you are actually putting yourself at significant risk for developing clinical depression, alcoholism, eating disorders, and even cardiovascular disease.
Folks who are exposed in very high doses have triple the lifetime risk of heart disease and lung cancer and a 20-year difference in life expectancy.
For a person with an ACE score of four or more, their relative risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was two and a half times that of someone with an ACE score of zero.
A person with an ACE score of seven or more had triple the lifetime risk of lung cancer and three and a half times the risk of ischemic heart disease, the number one killer in the United States of America.
But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer.
So for me, this information threw my old training out the window, because when we understand the mechanism of a disease, when we know not only which pathways are disrupted, but how, then as doctors, it is our job to use this science for prevention and treatment.
Today, we are beginning to understand how to interrupt the progression from early adversity to disease and early death, and 30 years from now, the child who has a high ACE score and whose behavioral symptoms go unrecognized, whose asthma management is not connected, and who goes on to develop high blood pressure and early heart disease or cancer will be just as anomalous as a six-month mortality from HIV/AIDS.
It's not a disease or an abnormality, and it isn’t necessarily tied to depression, anxiety, or self-esteem.
They help us resist disease, and they may even be affecting our behavior.
So I mentioned that microbes have all these important functions, and they've also now, just over the past few years, been connected to a whole range of different diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, colon cancer, and even obesity.
But how can we tell whether these microbial differences that correlate with disease are cause or effect?
Well, it turns out that microbes are not just important for finding out where we are in terms of our health, but they can actually cure disease.
We're just finding out that microbes have implications for all these different kinds of diseases, ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to obesity, and perhaps even autism and depression.
We now tend to die of cancer and heart disease, and what that means is that many of us will have a long period of chronic illness at the end of our lives.
We didn't have a group of epidemiologists ready to go, who would have gone, seen what the disease was, seen how far it had spread.
I study genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress.
Each year, 40 percent of the potential harvest is lost to pest and disease.
In my laboratory, we isolated a gene for immunity to a very serious bacterial disease in Asia and Africa.
Many people thought that the Hawaiian papaya was doomed, but then, a local Hawaiian, a plant pathologist named Dennis Gonsalves, decided to try to fight this disease using genetic engineering.
Today, 20 years later, there's still no other method to control this disease.
Cornell and Bangladeshi scientists decided to fight this disease using a genetic technique that builds on an organic farming approach.
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