NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1918 Flu Pandemic, Vitamin K
12 Jan 2017
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Sc/nats 1670 vaccines) countries: introduction different at this time bacterial infection) are disease of the modern age. Doctors had very few tools to deal with infectious diseases (very few: life expectancy in united states and canada was below 50 years old, child mortality was very high (25% of newborns ended up with. Oldest person was born in 1895 and dies in 2010 the world was vey. Life expectancy since the 60"s has continued to rise in canada and the united (3 billion 6 billion) to aids (1985), dropping to what the life expectancy was in the 80"s. Huge gap between life expectancies in rich and poor countries. Life expectancy went down in poorer countries (sub suharan africa) due. Increases world population: between 1960 - 2000 world population doubled. Life expectancy went up by 20% over 20 years. One infectious disease can reduce life expectancy dramatically: affected by tb as well (2 million people killed world wide due to tb, malaria.
