LIFESCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lyme Disease, Count Data, Monkeypox Virus
21 Jan 2015
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Infectious diseases: still bad: infectious diseases still account for 25% of deaths annually (15 million of 57 million) still a big problem. Emerging infections are a major health challenge: emerging infectious: one of the biggest challenges we face, they are major frontier in medicine/public health, they are fundamentally driven by ecology and evolution. Hiv: hiv/aids spread worldwide compromised immune system, makes them vulnerable to all kinds of infection, they discovered many new infections due to outbreak of. Hiv/aids: graph: broken down by type of infection, the majority of emerging infections in humans are zoonoses (white, orange, red, zoonotic infections: infections that transmit from vertebrate animals into humans, major source of emerging infections. Why is the rate of disease emergence increasing: 1. ) Humans populations is growing causing many effects: disturbing new habitats and encountering new species. Like going into new habitats and meeting new species. Geographic range expansion: agricultural practices intensifying bigger farms with more animals in closer quarters.
