GG231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Infection, Biological Agent, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Introduction: in the summer of 2014 the world was dealing with the threat of the resurgence of a disease that has no known cure. Ebola virus disease (evd) is a communicable disease that is spread from person to person by contact. Death will occur in about half the cases and comes on quickly. We watched as the disease spread across africa while health workers struggled to contain the disease to one region. However, with air traffic, tourists, visitors and health workers moving around the globe and possibly infecting other regions: of all hazards, this topic is likely the greatest threat to human populations. Being able to determine the next virus that threatens human health and prepare medicine to combat this will also limit the hazard. Diseases and epidemics types and processes: of all disasters, large-scale diseases, described generally as epidemics, pandemics, or plagues, affect human populations most directly.
