ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Tuberculosis, Neocolonialism, Brazilian Purpuric Fever
Document Summary
Week # 9: rethinking emerging infectious diseases by farmer 1999a. Renewed interest in epidemics and new and newly virulent pathogens. We have technologies that give us greater detail and insight in their processes and methods of pathogens. Ecological and economic transformations are leading to the increased contact between humans and vectors. Popularizing the concept of emerging infectious diseases has been useful in mobilizing public and private will and resources to combat these diseases that are usually halted by large bureaucracies, there is a sense of urgency. We need more epistemology the reflexive study of processes, units of analysis and key terms. Causative co factors: ecological changes, economic development, climate change, demographic changes and behavior, travel and commerce, technology and industry, microbial adaptation and change and breakdown of public health measures. Human actions have played a larger role in enhancing pathogenicity or increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents anthropogenesis of disease emergence.
