Even in this modern 21st century, the number of people dying because of epidemics is more than people dying in wars or terror attacks. According to the World Health Report 2004, if 7.2 million people die of ischaemic heart disease every year and 5.5 million out of Cerebrovascular disease, then 3.9 million also die out of lower respiratory infections.
One of the deadliest diseases, HIV/AIDS, kills 2.8 million every year, with over 39.4 million people living with HIV today. Over 32.7 million die every year from just 12 leading diseases worldwide. The World Health Report 2004 further reveals that out of the 57 million who died in the world in 2002 out of diseases, 33.5 million died out of non-communicable diseases, 18.3 million died out of communicable diseases, perinatal and nutritional conditions (rest from other external injuries).
Though medical science is advancing, so is the emergence of new viruses; in just 39 years, 40 new viruses have emerged, including Ebola, HIV, H1N1, H2N2. Avian, swine, mouth-and-foot, salmonella... although we’re winning the battles, scientists accept we’re not even close to winning the war – in fact, some say they don’t even have an idea where the war is supposed to take place.
In the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, cult author Professor Jared Diamond proves how Eurasian cultures have ruled all the other continents by spreading their ‘germs’ within foreign populations, thus killing them en masse, consequently allowing Eurasians to gain physical superiority.
One hopes he writes an epilogue for his book for the 2000s, as for a change, those are animals that seem to be getting a physical superiority over us...
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
One of the deadliest diseases, HIV/AIDS, kills 2.8 million every year, with over 39.4 million people living with HIV today. Over 32.7 million die every year from just 12 leading diseases worldwide. The World Health Report 2004 further reveals that out of the 57 million who died in the world in 2002 out of diseases, 33.5 million died out of non-communicable diseases, 18.3 million died out of communicable diseases, perinatal and nutritional conditions (rest from other external injuries).
Though medical science is advancing, so is the emergence of new viruses; in just 39 years, 40 new viruses have emerged, including Ebola, HIV, H1N1, H2N2. Avian, swine, mouth-and-foot, salmonella... although we’re winning the battles, scientists accept we’re not even close to winning the war – in fact, some say they don’t even have an idea where the war is supposed to take place.
In the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, cult author Professor Jared Diamond proves how Eurasian cultures have ruled all the other continents by spreading their ‘germs’ within foreign populations, thus killing them en masse, consequently allowing Eurasians to gain physical superiority.
One hopes he writes an epilogue for his book for the 2000s, as for a change, those are animals that seem to be getting a physical superiority over us...
For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
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