NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Surgeon General Of The United States, 1918 Flu Pandemic
12 Jan 2017
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Microbes have caused the most devastating epidemics in recent history (ex: Microbes and disease smallpox killed 3 million people/year when active) of how much damage it causes) Smallpox is the only virus we were able to eradicate (which is good because. Severe worker shortage, leading to economic down fall. Health care workers went over seas but were not safe from the flu themselves. Vaccines: mainly against viruses, small pox, rabies. During the mid 1900s most scientists and policy makers were shifting. Microbes were the first organism found on earth their attention away from infectious disease as better sanitation, vaccines and antibiotics made these diseases rare, at least in the developed world. We were somehow convinced that the (cid:498)war(cid:499) with infectious diseases was over. Infectious disease seemed to be on the way out. (cid:883)9(cid:888)9 us surgeon general to congress: (cid:498)its time to close the books on infectious diseases(cid:499) Small pox had been eradicated by the mid (cid:883)9(cid:889)(cid:882)"s.
