BIOL 1002 Chapter : Biology 1002 Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Emerging diseases have become an increasingly severe problem in the last 10 years. Diseases that were once thought to have been eradicated have been popping up all throughout the. Because people thought these diseases were no longer around, there were no efforts made to update old vaccines to fight new strains. So when these diseases started appearing more and more frequently, doctors had no vaccines to administer to combat these new strains of old diseases. People are dying as a result of these emerging infectious diseases. Some of the most common infectious diseases that are becoming resistant to antibiotics are respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis and strep (spellberg et. al, 155). Since these diseases are already relatively common, it"s a problem that we don"t have updated vaccines to treat these diseases. Despite the enormous success of early antibiotics in the 1960s, if disease keep evolving new strains that old vaccines can"t treat then the human species is out of luck.
