Veterinary Public Health Journal | Issue #17
Infectious Disease Threats in the Twenty-First Century
Abstract
Recently we are facing global pandemic of CoViD-19. It has kneeled down all the people in the world. It has first seen in Wuhan p rovince of China. Researchers has suggested that it is zoonotic and it is transmitted to human from bat and it is contagious. Till now it has affected almost 440 thousand population of world and death tolls reaches to 19000 whereas 112 thousand people have already recovered and living normal life. COVID-19 shows the symptoms similar to general flu. The present condition of people suggests that we people are not ready to face such type of outbreaks till now and more efforts need to be done to cope with such types of outbreaks in coming future.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND WE
Infectious disease are caused by pathogenic micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses’ parasites or fungi. It can spread directly or indirectly from one person to another. Likewise zoonotic disease are infectious of animals that can cause disease when transmitted to human. Human have been ruling this planet since long time. Being the most intelligent creature on earth human have failed to move along with nature, thus nature played its part. Our national interest are inevitably linked to the health of people throughout the world. Health, like education, is an investment in human capital that can help break cycles of poverty and political instability and is of fundamental importance is shaping and stability and well-being of a nation or region. The tragedy of all the outbreaks till now has deeply scarred large regions of the continent and it threatens to undermine economic progress, institutional strength and the survival of family units. Although less visible than the other outbreaks the human toll of economic hardships and social instability in Russia has resulted in a 10-year decrease in birth rate from the mid-80sto the mid-90s, far lower than the replacement rate needed VetPubHealth Journal ISSUE 17
a h t s e r h S n Sachi standard of living. These are only 2 examples of global health events that could threaten peace, prosperity and international relationships in the decades to come. The global reach of emerging infectious issuance of ‘Microbial Threats to Health Emergence, Detection and Response’ (2003), the SARS epidemic pandemic can emerge with astonishing speed and spread globally in matter of weeks. Shortly thereafter Bovine Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) and Monkey pox emerged for the first time in the Americas. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) contributes to improved global health through studies that advise on how to reduce the burden of disease and disability in developing countries, that illuminate emerging threats to international and global health and that emphasize infectious disease the most truly global threat to health.
How infectious disease start?
Infectious disease today ignore geographic and political boundaries, and thus constitute a global threat that places every nation and every person at risk. Food products, livestock, exotic pets and material goods and the microbes they carry are exchanged as culture from every region of the world are explored.Microbial Threats to Health, 2003 Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection and Response (2003) concludes that the public health and medical communities are inadequately prepared to deal effectively with infectious disease. Many reports on infectious disease describes scientific, social and political
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