The Globalization of Infections Diseases

THE GLOBALIZATION OF INFECTIONS DISEASES

Infectious diseases are being spread very quickly around the globe, emerging outbreaks faster and becoming increasingly difficult to treat, according to World Health Organization (WHO). In recent decades, new diseases arose at the unprecedented rate of one per year and have the ability to cross borders and spread rapidly as never occurred in the past because of globalization.

Regardless of our age, gender, lifestyle, race, education, socioeconomic and cultural level, human beings are threatened continuously for infectious diseases.

It is hard to imagine everyday situations such as working, eating in restaurants, workplaces, schools or childcare, transport on the bus or by air, vacation on a beach, desert or forest immersed in a hot tub, relax in the backyard, drink water, have sex, playing with the pet, hospitalization, may represent now facts of life and death.

The number of infectious diseases affecting humans has increased dramatically in recent years, the WHO, for example, has spread the news that in the past 20 years, there have been no fewer than 30 new human infectious diseases.

In the era of globalization, infectious diseases pose a serious threat to mankind, because of its rapid spread in the world and the possibility of the spread of new epidemics threatening.

 

Some of the recent epidemics and diseases are AIDS, AH1N1 virus, SARS, bird flu and Ebola that threaten to all people around the world.
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