Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Recession may worsen spread of exotic diseases
Scientists throughout the last couple of months have had to deal with the growing epidemic of diseases that might return from the recession. Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Malaria, Chagas and Leishmaniasis are some of the diseases that will return if scientists don't fix it. Many of the different countries are cutting health resources which will make it harder for some of the countries to protect people from stopping these diseases. According to Jeffrey Levi “States do not have resources to keep people on board and these people are monitoring diseases, the epidemiologists doing shoe leather investigations,”. Climate change is a major factor that scientists are scared about, because they don't know exactly what this will do for these diseases to be stopped. Virginia Tech did reserach last year and found out that a 1 degree increaase will occur in the next year. The total for all emerging diseases was $130.3 million for fiscal 2008. healthcare which has stopped allowing treatments, and vaccines to stop these diseases. If we don't do something about this soon then these diseasees will remerge and many millions of people will be affected and could possibly die. These things aren't things we are thinking about, but if we stop thinking about them then we could have a breakout and it wouldn't be able to be stopped. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29599786/
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This article was very interesting, but also almost very disturbing. The review was well presented because it was informative, descriptive, and provided the link to the article itself, which was very helpful. However, it seemed a little disjointed and I was unaware of any solid connection between the diseases and forensic science. That being said, it was very interesting, and made me feel that it is necessary for scientists and doctors who can prevent the return of these diseases be funded and paid attention to.
This article was very well written. It kept my attention the whole time and provided a realization for disease and funding. Though it wasn't completely focused on forensic science, I still felt it very important. In order to improve this article, a connection to some sort of forensic science could have been made, however other than that it was nicely done and kept my attention.
This is a very well written article. I was unaware of these diseases breaking out during the recession. It;s pretty scary to read that the climate changes are a major factor scientists are scarred about. The average increase in the temperature is also pretty scary, and hopefully they find a way soon to stop these diseases.
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