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It was Britain’s rising agricultural productivity in the 18th century, for example, which helped to raise nutrition levels and reduce the burden of infectious diseases, that helped to initiate the Industrial Revolution.
Approximately one-third of children in the poorest countries are malnourished, and thereby at risk of much greater incidence of infectious disease, learning disorders, and other maladies.
Millions of poor people every year die of infectious diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and measles.
Even in many middle-income and higher-income countries, there have been surges of new and re-emerging infectious diseases, as a result of increased global travel, the opening of new regions to settlement, and the overuse of antibiotics with a resulting spread of disease-resistant parasites.
I soon learned that, as bacteria and parasites develop resistance to existing drugs, like antibiotics and antimalarial medications, the world is at risk of losing its battle against infectious diseases.
But, with the increasing organization of medicine around specific diseases, the term has come to refer to an open-ended set of conditions including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, but not infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, or mental illness.
As infectious diseases have been brought increasingly under control, more people live into old age, when they become susceptible to long-term illnesses.
Health conditions have worsened as well, owing to nutritional deficiencies and the government’s decision not to supply infant formula, standard vaccines against infectious diseases, medicines for AIDS, transplant, cancer, and dialysis patients, and general hospital supplies.
But now they realize that local security forces are not enough to protect their citizens, and that the safety of people everywhere depends on internationally coordinated efforts to combat terrorism, pollution, infectious diseases, illegal drugs, and weapons of mass destruction, and to promote human rights, democracy, and development.
There is also the chance of another epidemic, as outbreaks of SARS, MERS, Ebola, and other infectious diseases have shown in recent years.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an air-borne disease, transmitted the same way as common flu, by coughing or sneezing, although it is much less infectious.
The key element in any comprehensive eradication effort is rapid diagnosis and treatment of infectious cases.
A joint partnership with GlaxoSmithKline will produce a six-in-one vaccine protecting children against polio and other infectious diseases; another, with Novartis, will produce two vaccines that will protect millions of people in the developing world from typhoid and paratyphoid fevers.
What we do know is that HPV is a highly infectious sexually transmitted virus, which is responsible for almost all forms of cervical cancer.
The fight against infectious diseases like Ebola is one that affects everyone.
With strong public-health leadership and effective coordination in the fight against infectious disease, people in West Africa – indeed, the entire world – would be able to rest assured that another resurgence of Ebola was not just around the corner.
But the result, as we saw after 1914, would be the worst of both worlds – reversal of the economic globalization that spreads technology and power, but reinforcement of negative dimensions of military and ecological globalization, such as war, terror, climate change, and the spread of infectious diseases.
Such partnerships are necessary for confronting the infectious and chronic diseases that threaten communities throughout the region, and they have the added benefit of providing entrepreneurial opportunities for the region’s youth.
Middle Eastern countries need fully integrated, innovation-oriented frameworks for training health-care professionals, so that they can address their current public-health challenges and prepare for new, unexpected ones, such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (commonly referred to as MERS), Ebola, and other infectious diseases that can appear with little or no forewarning.
Throughout rural China, the spread of infectious diseases – particularly hepatitis B, which affects millions – reflects a lack of hygiene education.
The health ministry cited a 9.5% increase in deaths caused by infectious diseases from 2011 to 2012.
Health Express achieves this by training local physicians in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and educating primary and middle-school students on health and hygiene via a traveling caravan that moves from school to school.
Now, with physicians trained in infectious diseases, hepatitis treatment is possible in rural areas of Xinjiang, and patient outcomes have improved significantly.
These measures would help not just in the fight against infectious diseases, but also in the ongoing effort to treat chronic diseases, which are imposing an additional disease burden on many developing countries.
But the tiny number of Ebola cases in rich countries – and the ensuing panic-inducing headlines and quarantine measures – have brought home the global nature of infectious disease today.
The best defense against an infectious disease is to fight it where it originates, and that requires good health services.
Ebola appears to have been eradicated from Nigeria, in no small part because that country had a Gates Foundation-supported hospital with personnel trained and equipped to control infectious diseases.
That question will soon need to be answered, because both the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (in conjunction with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and the Public Health Agency of Canada have candidate vaccines in development.
Despite being preventable and curable, it is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, and the most common cause of death by an infectious agent in modern times.
In reality, the global death toll from all of them, combined, is tiny compared to that from major infectious diseases that we hear much less about: diarrhea, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, tetanus, or measles.
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