ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture : Emerging Disease
9 Jan 2012
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The microbe is nothing; the terrain, everything. (louis pasteur, 1822-1895) To emerge = to come into view. Diseases emerge when they come into view (kilbourne 1996) Re-emerging > old, common: e. g. tuberculosis. Travel of people and vectors: e. g. Factory farming of chickens creates conditions that nurture avian influenza outbreaks: e. g. Needles and ebola: e. g. smallpox from europe to americas, e. g. Yellow fever from africa->caribbean>europe via aedes aegyptae: e. g. Ex-urbanization=> lyme disease in canada and u. s: e. g. expansion of mosquito vector range may => enlarge malaria belts. Existed in the deep past > epidemiologic transitions. Transformational processes that lead to disease emergence are ancient, on-going. there are things about the current wave of plagues that are new . (wills 1996:20) Sars an emerging infection of the third epidemiologic transition: Emerged in early 2003 in guandong province, china. Doctors observed cases of atypical pneumonia feb 2003 focus on hong kong hotel- disease spreads to.
