Globalization of infectious diseases


There are many infectious diseases around the world; infectious diseases are one of the principal causes of death around the world; usually the poorest countries are the ones that deal whit almost all of those diseases. Informing people about the causes and problems that these pathologies can bring is only one of the solutions for this growing issue that is killing people every day.

The health centers and governments all around the world know that infectious diseases cross all nations and boundaries, they also know that long term solutions require lots of time to plan effective ways of prevention and public health. Influenza, for example, is one of the most common infectious diseases but also we can mention HIV and Hepatitis B that are becoming more common every day, all of this could be prevented.

Prevention its achieve when governments act to avoid all of the pathologies coming in from different parts of the world, this usually happens when people from other countries come from their vacations or also happens when someone that, came from a different place, was not properly immunized and this can usually result in sickness. Preventing all of this requires effort from everyone, especially from the governments and health centers to come up whit different solutions.

Solutions are effective when people, instead of just talking start acting. The first solution is to educate people about prevention of infectious diseases, also through research, train more people on this discipline to find cures for the pathologies that affect our society.

It is impossible to eradicate all of those infectious diseases, but it is possible to educate ourselves to prevent it from getting sick and avoid getting everyone else sick. Health should be our main goal. I believe prevention and education are the keys to have a better life style.
Jonathan Roldán