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Kimberly

Infectious diseases in the world

Infectious diseases in the world

Infectious diseases in the world

Globalization is the principal cause of the flooding of infectious diseases. Every year a lot of people is contagious by West Nile Virus, Swine flu and AIDS epidemics as HIV, because people in this open world needs to go to another country for work, fun, vacation and find better opportunities to be successful, as a result we experiment the contagious of Swine Flu, for example according to CNN (2009) in Costa Rica we had 718 confirmed cases with 27 deaths  and the majority was in San Jose, so this statistics  show that our country is very vulnerable to the infectious diseases. Also in 1999 the West Nile Virus was detected in the Western Hemisphere produce 500 deaths around the world according to the U.S Center for Diseases Control and Prevention. The most important infectious diseases that affect 60 millions people are the HIV. These illness is the most deadly cause in Africa. However, it expands in all continents and millions of people have to live with this every day. Finally, we learn that these diseases are the bad side of globalization and is difficult to control their contagious measures.

Works cited

“Costa Rican President sick with swine flu”. CCN. 2009. 21-OCT-2010. Received from: http:<//edition .cnn.com/2009/WORLD/Americas/08111/costa.rica.president.h1n1.flu/indez>

“West Nile Virus”. NB11.21.oct.2010. From: <http://westnilevirus.nbii.gov> Received on 02/06/2010

“Global Fact & Figures”. World Health Organization. 2009. 21.oct.2010

2 comentarios

marco fernandez -

I believe that diseases are all over the world, and they are not going to disappear. But we can educate ourselves on what to do to prevent some disease, its important that we teach our kids and friend on how to prevent different illness, and also to learn what can we do to reduce the spread of different flues and viruses.

Mario Jose Chaves -

Hello! Kimberly I am agree with your opinion in this case many groups of people usually go on vacations to another country, so maybe that migration could mean a serious transmission of one disease. So if you want to travel you must be sure about which are the serious diseases in this country to care your own health, because as you know the pork flu was transmitted by foreign tourists.