GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dengue Fever, Black Death, Blood Transfusion

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Given disease epidemics, population change can be very sudden: remember swaziland pop. Public health and science attempts to eradicate disease, but they often return in different forms, and strains. Some major diseases: hiv/aids, ebola, malaria, cholera, influenza, plague, smallpox, dengue fever etc. Contemporary epidemics affecting population: 1980s-present: hiv/aids kills 30million worldwide, 2002: sars coronavirus kills 700-1000 worldwide, 2008-2009: cholera kills 4000+ in zimbabwe, 2010-present: cholera kills 6500+ in haiti and dominican republic. It is debatable whether disease is natural" but its effects are made unnatural" by existing inequalities. In the historical/contemporary epidemic data, there is a shift to less developed regions of the world. Us greater prevalence in african american men. Between core and periphery greater prevalence in periphery countries. Cdr is often associated with economic development (economic wealth), but also: demographic structure (elderly, health care and accessibility, social class, occupation, place of residence, poverty. 19th century cholera outbreaks also suggest the globalization" of disease.

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