ANTHROP 4S03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Rotavirus, Immunodeficiency, Cool Air
24 Apr 2020
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Changes between humans and physical environment are reconfiguring our relationships w pathogens. Contribute to the appearance or diffusion of new diseases or the movement of older diseases to new areas. We are reshaping the planet: depleting ocean species, deforestation, going into previously human-free environment zones, novel interactions w new animals, climate shifts. The world is a different place - more chaotic, storm tossed, disease ridden p. 125. This chapter looks act environmentally mediated infectious disease, esp as result of human activity. Emphasis on interaction of human influenced enviro changes on pathogen population, spread to new areas, and increased impact of infectious disease. Bc of biosocial and biocultural dynamics, human beings are not simply agents of enviro change but cause it and are objects of that change. Enviro change sig influences emerging and reemerging agents of infectious disease. : relationship btwn environmental changes and infectious disease transmission:
