NATS 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Warren Buffett, Edna Parker
2 Sep 2016
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Edna parker, born in 1895 was the worlds oldest person, has died on 2010 at age 115. The world was very different; life expectancy in the usa was below 50 years old. Child mortality was high, 25% of newborn delivery died in the mother from bacterial infection. At that time, you could not find alzheimer"s or cancer, as they were diseases for older age people. Doctors had very few tools to deal with infectious diseases, not many drugs were available, no vaccine to prevent diseases were available, doctors had very few ways to deal with viral, bacterial and other types of diseases. However, in 30 years or so, life expectancy went up. In 30 years (1900-28) life expectancy went up by 20%. 1960-2008 canada & usa life expectancy rose to 80 years old. In 40 years since 1960, size of the population was doubled from 3 billion to 6 billion.
