History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Malaria, Diarrhea, Pharmaceutical Industry
18 Apr 2016
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Lecture 03: time to close the book on infectious diseases. Terrible predictions: beetles were rejected, iphone would fail. Don"t panic of exotic infectious diseases, panic over everyday diseases. Glassner says panic and fear are good but only over the right thing: doing it over the wrong thing will lead to counter productiveness. In the modern age we still scapegoat: in 1991 cholera struck peru. The government of peru blamed the poor of. Death toll was not high: in the following year it spread to venezuela. 500, the poor people were blamed especially their indigenous people: the poor in these countries tended to blame those in power, 2010- earthquake in haiti was accompanied with cholera. They blamed un peacekeepers from nepal because they do not know them. The disease of the month club shows how we pick and choose diseases for selfish reasons: the western world ahs largely conquered the infectious disease.
