Pestilences of the 20th Century - Newly Recognized Diseases

Still other diseases are new comers, only recently identified.  WHO stated recently:  "During the past 20 years, at least 30 new diseases have emerged to threaten the health of hundred of millions of people. For many of these diseases there is no treatment, cure or vaccine and the possibility of preventing or controlling them is limited.

Consider, for example, HIV and AIDS.  Unknown only 15 years or so ago, they now afflict people on every continent. Presently, about 20 million adults are infected with HIV, and more than 4.5 million have developed AIDS.  According to the Human Development Report 1996, AIDS is now the leading cause of death for adults under age 45 in Europe and North America. Worldwide, some 6, 000 people are infected each day-one ever 15 seconds. Projections suggest that the number of AIDS causes will continue to rise steady. By the year 2010, life expectancy, African and Asian nations hit hardest by AIDS is expected to drop to 25 years, according to one U.S. agency. 

Is AIDS a unique, one-of-a-kind, disease, or could epidemic of other diseases emerge to create similar or even worse havoc? WHO answers: "Without doubt, diseases yet unknown but with the potential to be the AIDS of tomorrow lurk in the shadows."

Note: And some people get it through dirty blood  transfusions that are suppose to be checked out and disease free, but are not. And you can believe or not, but the government are the ones who brought it over here to start with from a diseased monkey. The government is corrupt, deceitful, dishonest, greedy, immoral etc., and they are not above doing these hateful things to people.

Next time: Pestilences of the 20th Century - Factors that Favor the Microbe

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