Global Changes and Public Health

 

•      Animal and Wildlife Diseases that can “jump”

–   Hong Kong Flu H5N1

 

 

Global Changes and Public Health

•      Climate Change and Public Health

                Paul Epstein, “Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?”

–   Malaria - Kenya  (Resurgence of a Deadly Disease)

–   Dengue fever

–   West Nile Virus

 

 

 

•      Resurgent Diseases

–     Resurgent Tuberculosis Russia faces TB time bomb  

–     Eastern Europe

–     TB: The Other Global Epidemic

–     Drug Resistant TB

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–     Cholera

–      Drug Resistant forms of Cholera 

–      Malaria

 

AIDs

AIDs is evolving beyond drugs currently used.

–     Also AIDs is emerging in regions in the world previously untouched like China.  Situation in rural China is particularly bad.

China facing Aids 'time bomb'

•      Drug Resistance and “Super bugs”

Antibiotic Resistance of certain diseases.

Antibiotics: A fading wonder (a directory)

 

 

•      “New” diseases from “out of balance” situations. Ebola

•             (see Laurie Garrett’s Reporting in The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust.)

 

 

    Biotechnology and Biological Warfare

–     Dismay over US germ warfare stance

–     Biology as weapon? - US government sets out to create artificial life-form in laboratory