NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antimicrobial Resistance, Hong Kong Hotel

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How mother nature and human collaborate in emerging infections. Palm civet(kind of like a racoon, rat, dog): bats transmit it to them. Sexual activity, drug activity, drug addiction, blood products. If you know how to treat the problem, you can control the problem. Diseases transmission within populations: today vs. the old days. 4000 years ago, we used animals to travel such as elephants. 2000 years ago, we used canoes to travel, where we carried diseases with us to other nations. Ebola virus killed millions of aboriginals all over the place: today, everyone wants to fly. If you are in the first and you want to go the middle east, in the old days, it would probably take you nine months. Since humans are moving very quickly around the world, so are diseases. In 1933, there weren"t many travelling air networks around the world.

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