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Poor, often illiterate, individuals are generally unaware of how infectious diseases – especially unfamiliar diseases – are transmitted, making them much more likely to become infected and to infect others.
The greatest urgency lies in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where health conditions and extreme poverty are worst, and preventable and controllable infectious diseases continue to rage.
Strengthening the response to naturally occurring infectious diseases or poisoning is needed to protect against the deliberate misuse of science to spread disease or poison.
Climate change, infectious diseases, terrorism, and other ills that can easily cross borders demand a similar global response.
In a world where borders are becoming more porous than ever to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, Americans will be forced to work with other countries beyond their borders.
In low-income countries, nine million people, mostly children, die each year from infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea, and AIDS.
Land use changes, say, can amplify the spread of infectious diseases by changing the mix of species or the ways that animals and humans interact.
The Deadly Axis of TB and DiabetesPARIS – Last year, tuberculosis surpassed HIV/AIDS to become the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
In each of these projects, experts wrote dozens of research papers examining how best to spend resources on a variety of issues, from armed conflict and biodiversity destruction to infectious disease and sanitation.
The rich countries should help the poor countries to overcome the burdens of their geography by helping to fund a major fight against as AIDS, malaria, and other tropical infectious diseases.
But there is a third, arguably more pernicious, risk lurking below most decision-makers’ radar: infectious diseases.
But the risks from infectious diseases that we face today could intensify substantially, owing to the rise of anti-microbial resistance (AMR).
Yet they do tend to wait for crises to erupt before they invest in fighting infectious diseases.
In this sense, the fight against infectious diseases closely resembles the fight against climate change.
In fact, one in six cancer cases worldwide is caused by a known infectious agent, with the proportion rising to one-third in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Then there is hepB, which is over 50 times more infectious than HIV and often passed from mother to child before or shortly after birth, increasing the likelihood of liver cancer later in life.
The same is true of a long list of items: the spread of infectious diseases, the stability of global financial markets, the international trade system, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime syndicates and transnational terrorism.
And, in a world where borders are becoming increasingly porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must mobilize international coalitions to address shared threats and challenges.
Yet tuberculosis, which has received relatively little attention, remains the biggest global infectious disease killer.
Appealing to the public’s fears and nativist passions, he declares the culture of the immigrants antithetical to Dutch values and denounces their religion, which “scandalizes Christians,” as a kind of infectious disease.
Warning: Hospitals May be Unsafe for the PoorMost public health initiatives in developing countries focus on controlling infectious diseases in the community.
Infectious diseases have no borders, and as African countries deepen their trade ties and intra-Africa migration grows, the threat of regional pandemics will only increase.
Smallpox, which is believed to have emerged even before rabies, has now been eradicated, and programs are currently under way to put an end to polio, Guinea worm disease, and other infectious ailments.
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, tremendous progress has been made in combating deadly infectious diseases.
Just as the world united to help Africa beat infectious disease outbreaks, a similar collaborative approach is needed to halt the cancer crisis.
Building health-care systems that are capable of managing infectious diseases, while also providing quality cancer care, requires a significant investment in time, money, and expertise.
When the world took notice that infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, polio, and malaria were ravaging Africa, action plans were drawn up and solutions were delivered.
Today’s blood supplies, often donated by volunteers, can be contaminated with HIV and other infectious agents.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
Whatever the reason, the fact is that as long as humans fail to organize a collective and comprehensive defense, infectious diseases will continue to wreak havoc – with disastrous consequences.
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