Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
Exotic diseases are the greatest threat to humanity. In a world where so many things are overlooked, diseases and epidemics are clearly overlooked and underestimated far more than any threat of nuclear war, global warming, or any comet headed for earth. Throughout history epidemics have plagued the earth several times resulting in a devastating number of deaths. As we approach the new millennium, many new and old diseases await humanity. What the world doesn't comprehend is that an epidemic can be easily spawn off by many other problems humanity faces today. Some of those problems are high population density, newly inhabited areas, increased travel, new generation without immunity, ...
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doomsday in the next millennium, but the one that seems the most likely to happen is a world epidemic.
Human activities and behavior often help increases the risk of a world epidemic. In such activities like increased travel, shipments of resources and wild animals increase the possibility of catching a deadly virus and starting to spread an epidemic. Human behavior such as neglect can determine the fate of a world epidemic. Most people believe that Ebola or any other exotic disease would spawn off and epidemic only in third world countries, but that’s not true. In 1989 Ebola made it’s way to the United States. The virus hit Virginia, but luckily only in some Monkey’s. The monkeys were shipped in from West Africa, for experiments. What most people didn’t realize right away was that some of the monkeys were infected with Ebola. When the monkey’s arrived, the World Health Organization had found some dead, and diagnosed them with Ebola. The military had to quarantine and then kill all ...
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is by the increase of travel. People can limit themselves to which places they travel, but what about insects? The American “Screw worm fly”, which transmitted deadly maggots that kill livestock, turned up in Lybia in 1988. It quickly spread through North Africa and its natural habitat was the USA. (Garrett, P.576, 1995)
“In temperate ecologies, keeping wild insects at bay was quite easy, provided abatement and control systems remained intact and vigilant. Even a year of slacking in such an effort could, permit a sudden surge in insect vector populations, with resultant disease.” (Garrett, P.576, 1995)
The fact that an outbreak could easily occur, if there was just a little neglect ...
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