ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smallpox, Public Health, Chloroquine
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Feb, 15 7-9pm sw 309 no class on tuesday feb 12. Deforestation lead to emerging of new infectious diseases that has human consequences. Shifting of high fertility forest soils to pasture. Increased shift from communal to private land ownership. Not just losing trees but issue of high fertility of soil shifting. Flooding gets stop if live on river but can lead to schistosomiasis affected by water flow. Tropical regions great catastrophic events typhoon so more risks in infectious disease. Direct transmission one primary host to another. Cholera,lymphatic filariasis dracunculiasisinfluence by water use water contaminated. Importance of numerous circulating diseases (and syndemics) together not emerging on their own. When transmission becomes more difficult there may be selection for less virulent pathogen strains. Failure of development porjects when they are single disease-focused must be multi-focused. Think about all ecological factors that affect pop. Public health effort in controlling 219 million affected killing 490000-836000.
