GGRB28H3 : Farmer notes
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Emerging infectious diseases : aids & brazilian purpuric fever (i. e. , new diseases, hantaan virus [which spread beyond asia as a result of ecological and economic transformations increasing the contact btw humans and rodents], Lyme disease , hemorrhagic fevers (i. e. , old diseases that have somehow changed, either in pathogenicity or distribution: multidrug-resistant tb and group a streptococcal infection ( flesh eating bacteria ) even in cases of microbial mutations, we often find signs that human actions have played a large role in enhancing pathogenicity or increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents. of all emerging viral infections, only the emergence of rift valley fever is attributed to a possible change in virulence/pathogenicity. malaria is known as a tropical disease but not too long ago, malaria was a significant problem far from the tropics (e. g. , us: tropical medicine implies a geographic rather than a social topography.
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