L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Sylvatic, Great Fear
28 Nov 2016
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Emerging infectious disease: created soon after the holocaust by a survivor. Juxtaposition of horrific imagery and light-hearted tone, between the. Holocaust and the music, shows absurdity: the diseases that are emerging as in (cid:498)new,(cid:499) last few years. (cid:498)new(cid:499, the diseases are also re-emerging. Have been around forever, but are strands coming back. Sars, ebola, zika: all gave great fear of global pandemic, all new/emerging, difficulty treating leads to pandemic. Factors involved in id emergence: microbial adaptation and change, inter-species transmission (zoonoses, international travel, urbanization, structural and infrastructural challenges. Social inequalities and emerging infectious diseases by paul farmer. Can affect everyone(cid:499)(cid:524) disregards key differences: *improvements in overall standard of living would decrease id emergence. Yellow fever: endemic in many regions, mosquito vector transmission. Mosquito to nonhuman or human primate: who to massify yellow fever vaccination, 12 million vaccinated in. Ebola outbreaks: 1976 and 2014, the most consequential health epidemic since hiv aids, deforestation, agricultural changes, mining, clearing land.
