CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Endemic and epidemic diseases in Third World countries
Within a couple of months, countries around the globe began to report cases of swine flu and on 11th June 2009, WHO declared it to be a pandemic.... Although a lack of data collection networks in underdeveloped countries led to an inability to estimate the actual number of people affected, studies were able to predict that this pandemic will be mild and short-lived well before the pandemic was declared over in August 2010.... Meanwhile, authorities like CDC in USA continued to report on the new influenza activity in 35 states of USA but reported that the activity had not reached the point where it could be labeled an epidemic....
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The best way to prevent yellow fever is to avoid travelling to regions with endemic and epidemic cases of the yellow fever virus, but if a person wishes to travel to these regions it is advisable to be vaccinated ten to fourteen days prior to travelling (PubMed Health 2009).... In South America, the countries considered to have the greatest risk of contracting yellow fever include Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.... countries at risk for yellow fever in Africa are typically situated on or around the equator....
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However, most countries have been able to put it under control by introduction of measles vaccine.... Community Health- Communicable diseases [Name of Student] [Name of Affiliate Institution] Part A Introduction Measles or Rubeola is a communicable disease that affects mostly children under the age of five years.... Respiratory diseases such as measles and Tuberculosis are usually very communicable because most of them are transmitted airborne....
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Examination of HIV and AIDS in the United States accounts for almost sixty percent of cases reported to the World Health Organization by 152 states, both the level of the individual immunodeficiency virus (HIV) endemic in this nation and the comprehensiveness of the treatment in comparison with the rest of the countries.... world Bank Publications.... During the third decade of the HIV pandemic, the growing group of infected and affected people by HIV was of young girls and women....
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hellip; This acute viral disease has no cure, and is currently endemic in forty-five African countries and eleven Latin American nations.... However, about 15% of those infected enter the third stage, which is the toxic stage.... Epidemics continued to plague Europe, South America, and the coastal cities of America, such as New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the following three centuries, making it one of the most dangerous infectious diseases of the nineteenth century (Nordqvist, 2009) Yellow Fever is caused by the Flavivirus which is endemic to African arboreal monkeys....
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hellip; For countries that do not have the proper economic tools to fight off this disease, they should be given priority in terms of health assistance.... These poorer and less equipped nations might also spread the infection to other countries if inadequate control.... The case study "world Wide Flu Epidemic Kills 20 Million" points out that Almost on a daily basis, we face the threat of acquiring the flu virus and of being down with the flu....
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Case Study
It can be asserted that unfortunately, the Western Media has rated diseases as being first-world and third-world ailments, and therefore, the attention which is devoted to the third world diseases is highly dependent on the threat posed on the Western countries and not on a universal or global measure of human suffering.... Until the American Doctors who were working in the Ebola stricken West African countries became diagnosed with the Ebola disease, the outbreak had indeed remained to be largely faceless in the media....
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First discovered in 1976, the Zaire virus has become the cause of numerous severe epidemics in Central African countries.... The case has mobilized the world health community.... The present-day epidemic is caused by the Zaire strain which has previously been reported to have a mortality rate of 78%.... This strain was brought to attention after an epidemic of fatal infection in macaques transported to the U.... n 2008, an epidemic of severe illness affecting pigs occurred in the Philippines....
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