HLTC05H3 Chapter Notes -Zoonosis, Scrub Typhus, Epidemiological Transition
Document Summary
Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease. William stewart, a us surgeon testified before congress that eradication of infectious diseases was at hand and will be wiped out soon. He claimed smallpox, bubonic plague and malaria were thigns of the past. He said it was only a matter of time till other diseases would be eradicated. Who issued a report in 2001 in which they showed that most of the death especially in third world countries were due to parasitic and respiratory diseases now. Other deaths due to aids, tb and malaria. Stewart was unable to judge the potency that such parasitic pathogens and insects would cause more harm then other diseases. Therefore it can be said that humans continue to cause ecological disturbances that inversly accelerate changes in antibiotic and pesticide resistance, therefore causing death of millions of people.
