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c_bu2kh7dpifao | According to a systematic review from 2014, observed prevalence rates of sexual addiction/hypersexual disorder range from 3% to 6%. Some studies suggest that sex addicts are disproportionately male, at 80%. | Sexual addiction |
c_imslwidmlvxv | Sex addiction as a term first emerged in the mid-1970s when various members of Alcoholics Anonymous sought to apply the principles of 12-steps toward sexual recovery from serial infidelity and other unmanageable compulsive sex behaviors that were similar to the powerlessness and un-manageability they experienced with a... | Sexual addiction |
c_4vitg7r1c78z | The controversy surrounding sexual addiction is centered around its identification, through a diagnostic model, in a clinical setting. As noted in current medical literature reviews, compulsive sexual behavior has been observed in humans; drug-induced compulsive sexual behavior has also been noted clinically in some in... | Sexual addiction |
c_ubu64rzqdd2q | Consequently, diagnostic classification systems, such as the DSM, do not include sexual addiction as a diagnosis because there is currently "insufficient peer-reviewed evidence to establish the diagnostic criteria and course descriptions needed to identify these behaviors as mental disorders". A systematic review on se... | Sexual addiction |
c_6qq8k3ogff9q | The Mayo Clinic considers sexual addiction a form of obsessive compulsive disorder and refer to it as "sexual compulsivity" (note that addiction has been defined as a compulsion toward rewarding stimuli, although the ASAM now describe it as "a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related cir... | Sexual addiction |
c_fsy28n5sxjov | "Love addiction" falls into the same controversial area as well since it refers to a frequent pattern of intimate relationships which can be a by product of cultural norms and commonly accepted morals.In a report from 2003, Marty Klein, stated that "the concept of sex addiction provides an excellent example of a model ... | Sexual addiction |
c_o6sfn35qa1va | Sexual addiction has been the main theme in a variety of films including Diary of a Sex Addict, I Am a Sex Addict, Black Snake Moan, Confessions of a Porn Addict, Shame, Thanks for Sharing, Don Jon, and Choke. Charles II of England was portrayed as a sex addict in 17th century satires. | Sexual addiction |
c_v53fx6m1hh6q | A model village is a type of mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and business magnates to house their workers. Although the villages are located close to the workplace, they are generally physically separated from them and often consist of relatively high-quality hous... | Model village |
c_i4hermjqgxsw | The term model village was first used by the Victorians to describe the new settlements created on the rural estates of the landed gentry in the eighteenth century. As landowners sought to improve their estates for aesthetic reasons, new landscapes were created and the cottages of the poor were demolished and rebuilt o... | Model village |
c_2wprr32mgyu1 | An early example of an industrial model village was New Lanark built by Robert Owen. Philanthropic coal owners provided decent accommodation for miners from the early nineteenth century. Earl Fitzwilliam, a paternalistic colliery owner provided houses near his coal pits in Elsecar near Barnsley that were "...of a class... | Model village |
c_q5o6sa3odfwp | They had four rooms and a pantry, and outside a small garden and pig sty.Others were established by Edward Akroyd at Copley between 1849 and 1853 and Ackroyden 1861-63. Akroyd employed Giles Gilbert Scott. Titus Salt built a model village at Saltaire. | Model village |
c_x7ktbvqp6p3b | Henry Ripley, owner of Bowling Dyeworks, began construction of Ripley Ville in Bradford in 1866. Industrial communities were established at Price's Village by Price's Patent Candle Company and at Aintree by Hartley's, who made jam, in 1888. William Lever's Port Sunlight had a village green and its houses espoused an id... | Model village |
c_afgpus4iq5oi | Quaker industrialists, George Cadbury and Rowntrees built model villages by their factories. Cadbury built Bournville between 1898 and 1905 and a second phase from 1914 and New Earswick was built in 1902 for Rowntrees.As coal mining expanded villages were built to house coal miners. In Yorkshire, Grimethorpe, Goldthorp... | Model village |
c_99u6gt1kdia9 | The architect who designed Woodlands and Creswell Model Villages, Percy B. Houfton was influential in the development of the garden city movement. In the 1920s, Silver End model village in Essex was built for Francis Henry Crittall. Its houses were designed in an art deco-style with flat roofs and Crittall windows. The... | Model village |
c_5t5hv3gk0dr0 | (Chronological order) Trowse, Norfolk (1805) Blaise Hamlet, Gloucestershire (1811) Selworthy, Somerset (1828) Barrow Bridge, Bolton (1830s) Vulcan Village, Merseyside (1833) Snelston, Derbyshire (1840s) Swindon Railway Village, Wiltshire (1840s) Withnell Fold, Lancashire (1844) Meltham, Yorkshire (1850) Bromborough Poo... | Model village |
c_aoicqoikqfdl | Milford, County Armagh, Northern Ireland (1800s) Portlaw, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland (1825) Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (1835) Bessbrook, County Armagh, Northern Ireland (1845) Laurelvale, County Armagh, Northern Ireland (1850s) Model Village, County Cork (1910s; usually called Tower, the nam... | Model village |
c_fep98vfvpwtl | New Lanark, Lanarkshire (1786) | Model village |
c_36c6g3pxobla | Tremadog, Caernarfonshire (1798) Elan Village, Powys (1892) Portmeirion, Merioneth (1925) | Model village |
c_0jv5g9dh5z9m | Zlin, located in Moravia, was organized and built by Tomáš Baťa to house and efficiently organize the workers of Bata Shoes. | Model village |
c_l9m97sfz2zo2 | Stadt des KdF-Wagens was built for the Volkswagen factory. | Model village |
c_x2e0k67vcm2t | Crespi d’Adda in the Lombardy region, is a well-preserved model workers' village, and World Heritage Site since 1995. It was built from scratch, starting in 1878, to provide housing and social services for the workers in a cotton textile factory on the banks of the river Adda. | Model village |
c_5s7ytunwl5da | Nuevo Baztán outside Madrid dates from the mercantilist and entrepreneurial ambitions of an industrialist from the early-eighteenth century. | Model village |
c_zvdvzfjgafjv | Australian Newsprint Mills established a worker's village at Boyer, Tasmania to accommodate workers of the Boyer Mill Cadbury established the Cadbury's Estate in Claremont, Tasmania in 1921 EZ Industries constructed homes at Lutana, Tasmania for workers of the nearby Risdon Zinc Works, commencing in 1916 | Model village |
c_f9zqoj8einvq | Barrhill was laid out by its Scottish owner for the workers on his large sheep farm | Model village |
c_ah8oqqqititb | Globalization, the flow of information, goods, capital, and people across political and geographic boundaries, allows infectious diseases to rapidly spread around the world, while also allowing the alleviation of factors such as hunger and poverty, which are key determinants of global health. The spread of diseases acr... | Globalization and disease |
c_yffon4gzzjlk | Efficient and inexpensive transportation has left few places inaccessible, and increased global trade in agricultural products has brought more and more people into contact with animal diseases that have subsequently jumped species barriers (see zoonosis).Globalization intensified during the Age of Exploration, but tra... | Globalization and disease |
c_9h3eqjo6y7sa | The Age of Exploration generally refers to the period between the 15th and 17th centuries. During this time, technological advances in shipbuilding and navigation made it easier for nations to explore outside previous boundaries. Globalization has had many benefits, for example, new products to Europeans were discovere... | Globalization and disease |
c_iz942h808eo3 | Trading in slaves was another way by which diseases were carried to new locations and peoples, for instance, from sub-Saharan Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas. During this time, different societies began to integrate, increasing the concentration of humans and animals in certain places, which led to the emergen... | Globalization and disease |
c_kgakdve4r4ee | Early medicine often included the use of herbs and meditation. Based on archaeological evidence, some prehistoric practitioners in both Europe and South America used trephining, making a hole in the skull to release illness. Severe diseases were often thought of as supernatural or magical. | Globalization and disease |
c_1v4r61yapnj8 | The result of the introduction of Eurasian diseases to the Americas was that many more native peoples were killed by disease and germs than by the colonists' use of guns or other weapons. Scholars estimate that over a period of four centuries, epidemic diseases wiped out as much as 90 percent of the American indigenous... | Globalization and disease |
c_9jmlq0xsn2yx | People had developed some antibodies to these and other diseases from the Eurasian continent. When the Europeans traveled to new lands, they carried these diseases with them. (Note: Scholars believe TB was already endemic in the Americas.) | Globalization and disease |
c_c4xjvtuyuufh | When such diseases were introduced for the first time to new populations of humans, the effects on the native populations were widespread and deadly. The Columbian Exchange, referring to Christopher Columbus's first contact with the native peoples of the Caribbean, began the trade of animals, and plants, and unwittingl... | Globalization and disease |
c_d5ht5ajypfi5 | Many people were quite skeptical, but on May 22, 1881, Pasteur persuasively demonstrated the validity of his germ theory of disease with an early example of vaccination. The anthrax vaccine was administered to 25 sheep while another 25 were used as a control. On May 31, 1881, all of the sheep were exposed to anthrax. | Globalization and disease |
c_mexu9xyft9j6 | While every sheep in the control group died, each of the vaccinated sheep survived. Pasteur's experiment would become a milestone in disease prevention. His findings, in conjunction with other vaccines that followed, changed the way globalization affected the world. | Globalization and disease |
c_fii1nawxy2hp | Modern modes of transportation allow more people and products to travel around the world at a faster pace; they also open the airways to the transcontinental movement of infectious disease vectors. One example is the West Nile virus. It is believed that this disease reached the United States via "mosquitoes that crosse... | Globalization and disease |
c_tzmne4volah8 | Another example of the potency of modern modes of transportation in increasing the spread of disease is the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Global transportation, back in the early 20th century, was able to spread a virus because the network of transmittance and trade was already global. The virus was found on crew members ... | Globalization and disease |
c_14otpqp52712 | As a result, almost 50-100 million people died of this global transmission.As medicine has progressed, many vaccines and cures have been developed for some of the worst diseases (plague, syphilis, typhus, cholera, malaria) that people develop. But, because the evolution of disease organisms is very rapid, even with vac... | Globalization and disease |
c_ndwpk0uodlw0 | The lack of operational and functional research and data, which provide a quicker and more strategized pathway to a reliable vaccine, makes for a lengthy vaccine development timeline. Even though frameworks are set up and preparations plans are utilized to decrease the COVID-19 cases, a vaccine is the only way to ensur... | Globalization and disease |
c_hcnslc41liio | These systems employ past data and research-based on modern world vaccine development successes. Finding vaccines at all for some diseases remains extremely difficult. | Globalization and disease |
c_lmlu9eq9gr1f | Without vaccines, the global world remains vulnerable to infectious diseases.Evolution of disease presents a major threat in modern times. For example, the current "swine flu" or H1N1 virus is a new strain of an old form of flu, known for centuries as Asian flu based on its origin on that continent. From 1918 to 1920, ... | Globalization and disease |
c_7vdsina5zrrl | H1N1 is a virus that has evolved from and partially combined with portions of avian, swine, and human flu.Globalization has increased the spread of infectious diseases from South to North, but also the risk of non-communicable diseases by transmission of culture and behavior from North to South. It is important to targ... | Globalization and disease |
c_k3c9zf4gms2r | Economic factors are especially damaged by increased global lockdown regulations and trade blockades. As transportation globalized, economies expanded. Internalized economies saw great financial opportunities in global trade. | Globalization and disease |
c_ng20gezza495 | With increased interconnectivity among economies and the globalization of the world economy, the spread of the coronavirus maximized the potentiality of global recessions. The coronavirus pandemic caused many economic disruptions, which caused a functional disconnect in the supply chain and the flow of goods. As transp... | Globalization and disease |
c_wrgbj43qbez7 | Bubonic plague is a variant of the deadly flea-borne disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, that devastated human populations beginning in the 14th century. Bubonic plague is primarily spread by fleas that lived on the black rat, an animal that originated in South Asia and spread to Euro... | Globalization and disease |
c_7pj5cuw4qe0h | The first sign of an infection of bubonic plague is swelling of the lymph nodes, and the formation of buboes. These buboes would first appear in the groin or armpit area, and would often ooze pus or blood. Eventually infected individuals would become covered with dark splotches caused by bleeding under the skin. | Globalization and disease |
c_ks86ifdbaqrx | The symptoms would be accompanied by a high fever, and within four to seven days of infection, more than half of the affected would die. The first recorded outbreak of plague occurred in China in the 1330s, a time when China was engaged in substantial trade with western Asia and Europe. The plague reached Europe in Oct... | Globalization and disease |
c_il9glwup592b | It was thought to have been brought into Europe through the port of Messina, Sicily, by a fleet of Genoese trading ships from Kaffa, a seaport on the Crimean peninsula. When the ship left port in Kaffa, many of the inhabitants of the town were dying, and the crew was in a hurry to leave. By the time the fleet reached M... | Globalization and disease |
c_u38ijd3q3da1 | Within Europe, the plague struck port cities first, then followed people along both sea and land trade routes. It raged through Italy into France and the British Isles. It was carried over the Alps into Switzerland, and eastward into Hungary and Russia. | Globalization and disease |
c_b2drqbu1pw56 | For a time during the 14th and 15th centuries, the plague would recede. Every ten to twenty years, it would return. | Globalization and disease |
c_hgg1zddqa68s | Later epidemics, however, were never as widespread as the earlier outbreaks, when 60% of the population died. The third plague pandemic emerged in Yunnan province of China in the mid-nineteenth century. It spread east and south through China, reaching Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong in 1894, where it entered the globa... | Globalization and disease |
c_fht8gos5qgp8 | Plague reached Singapore and Bombay in 1896. China lost an estimated 2 million people between plague's reappearance in the mid-nineteenth century and its retreat in the mid-twentieth. In India, between 1896 and the 1920s, plague claimed an estimated 12 million lives, most in the Bombay province. | Globalization and disease |
c_ebew3c8tgt2n | Plague spread into the countries around the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. From China it also spread eastward to Japan, the Philippines and Hawaii, and in Central Asia it spread overland into the Russian territories from Siberia to Turkistan. By 1901 there had been outbreaks of plague on every contine... | Globalization and disease |
c_mzjeqgrn3i3f | Measles is a highly contagious airborne virus spread by contact with infected oral and nasal fluids. When a person with measles coughs or sneezes, they release microscopic particles into the air. During the 4- to 12-day incubation period, an infected individual shows no symptoms, but as the disease progresses, the foll... | Globalization and disease |
c_0dwa1nf1da95 | In populations that have not been exposed to measles, exposure to the new disease can be devastating. In 1529, a measles outbreak in Cuba killed two-thirds of the natives who had previously survived smallpox. Two years later measles was responsible for the deaths of half the indigenous population of Honduras, and ravag... | Globalization and disease |
c_jvc0uhtgnghg | According to the National Immunization Program, 90% of people were infected with measles by age 15, acquiring immunity to further outbreaks. Until a vaccine was developed in 1963, measles was considered to be deadlier than smallpox. Vaccination reduced the number of reported occurrences by 98%. | Globalization and disease |
c_78xa9bjorij1 | Major epidemics have predominantly occurred in unvaccinated populations, particularly among nonwhite Hispanic and African American children under 5 years old. In 2000 a group of experts determined that measles was no longer endemic in the United States. The majority of cases that occur are among immigrants from other c... | Globalization and disease |
c_126ma5vsiia0 | Typhus is caused by rickettsia, which is transmitted to humans through lice. The main vector for typhus is the rat flea. Flea bites and infected flea feaces in the respiratory tract are the two most common methods of transmission. In areas where rats are not common, typhus may also be transmitted through cat and opossu... | Globalization and disease |
c_pnchqw4b3h6l | The incubation period of typhus is 7–14 days. The symptoms start with a fever, then headache, rash, and eventually stupor. | Globalization and disease |
c_o4kp60hasxuy | Spontaneous recovery occurs in 80–90% of victims. The first outbreak of typhus was recorded in 1489. Historians believe that troops from the Balkans, hired by the Spanish army, brought it to Spain with them. | Globalization and disease |
c_iqn0zj3i8ndi | By 1490 typhus traveled from the eastern Mediterranean into Spain and Italy, and by 1494, it had swept across Europe. From 1500 to 1914, more soldiers were killed by typhus than from all the combined military actions during that time. It was a disease associated with the crowded conditions of urban poverty and refugees... | Globalization and disease |
c_zoizq24haw0x | Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that causes open sores, delirium and rotting skin, and is characterized by genital ulcers. Syphilis can also do damage to the nervous system, brain and heart. The disease can be transmitted from mother to child. The origins of syphilis are unknown, and some historians argue th... | Globalization and disease |
c_rqqg41zsqr31 | Other historians place its emergence in the New World, arguing that the crews of Columbus's ships first brought the disease to Europe. The first recorded case of syphilis occurred in Naples in 1495, after King Charles VIII of France besieged the city of Naples, Italy. The soldiers, and the prostitutes who followed thei... | Globalization and disease |
c_dq98wtsoq7xn | Smallpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the Variola virus. There are four variations of smallpox; variola major, variola minor, haemorrhagic, and malignant, with the most common being variola major and variola minor. Symptoms of the disease including hemorrhaging, blindness, back ache, vomiting, which general... | Globalization and disease |
c_ol2mflxec7rq | As the disease progresses, the pimples fill up with pus or merge. This merging results in a sheet that can detach the bottom layer from the top layer of skin. | Globalization and disease |
c_8esi9abnc3lt | The disease is easily transmitted through airborne pathways (coughing, sneezing, and breathing), as well as through contaminated bedding, clothing or other fabrics, It is believed that smallpox first emerged over 3000 years ago, probably in India or Egypt. There have been numerous recorded devastating epidemics through... | Globalization and disease |
c_8i8hc90a7tbm | After Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola during his second voyage in 1493, local people started to die of a virulent infection. Before the smallpox epidemic started, more than one million indigenous people had lived on the island; afterward, only ten thousand had survived.During the 16th century, Spanish soldi... | Globalization and disease |
c_8oxm089wim4c | By 1638 the disease had broken out among people in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1721 people fled the city after an outbreak, but the residents spread the disease to others throughout the Thirteen Colonies. Smallpox broke out in six separate epidemics in the United States through 1968. | Globalization and disease |
c_p58aa9x4bmg7 | The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1798 by Edward Jenner. By 1979 the disease had been completely eradicated, with no new outbreaks. The WHO stopped providing vaccinations and by 1986, vaccination was no longer necessary to anyone in the world except in the event of future outbreak. | Globalization and disease |
c_1nbfqqzs7meu | Leprosy, also known as Hansen's Disease, is caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium leprae. It is a chronic disease with an incubation period of up to five years. Symptoms often include irritation or erosion of the skin, and effects on the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract and eyes. The most common s... | Globalization and disease |
c_hawf16nnanyq | Leprosy originated in India, more than four thousand years ago. It was prevalent in ancient societies in China, Egypt and India, and was transmitted throughout the world by various traveling groups, including Roman Legionnaires, Crusaders, Spanish conquistadors, Asian seafarers, European colonists, and Arab, African, a... | Globalization and disease |
c_tzealr8nvon0 | With the help of the crusaders and other travelers, leprosy reached epidemic proportions by the 13th century. Once detected, leprosy can be cured using multi-drug therapy, composed of two or three antibiotics, depending on the type of leprosy. In 1991 the World Health Assembly began an attempt to eliminate leprosy. By ... | Globalization and disease |
c_uwr6txmzwbw9 | On Nov. 6, 1880 Alphonse Laveran discovered that malaria (then called "Marsh Fever") was a protozoan parasite, and that mosquitoes carry and transmit malaria. Malaria is a protozoan infectious disease that is generally transmitted to humans by mosquitoes between dusk and dawn. The European variety, known as "vivax" aft... | Globalization and disease |
c_32eksc9iqjv2 | The west African variety is caused by the sporozoan parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and results in a severely debilitating and deadly disease. Malaria was common in parts of the world where it has now disappeared, as the vast majority of Europe (disease of African descent are particularly diffused in the Empire romain... | Globalization and disease |
c_mib0590ui2cl | Although William Shakespeare was born at the beginning of a colder period called the "Little Ice Age", he knew enough ravages of this disease to include in eight parts. Plasmodium vivax lasted until 1958 in the polders of Belgium and the Netherlands. In the 1500s, it was the European settlers and their slaves who proba... | Globalization and disease |
c_lxp0oeo44cvb | The Spanish Jesuit missionaries saw the Indians bordering on Lake Loxa Peru used the Cinchona bark powder to treat fevers. However, there is no reference to malaria in the medical literature of the Maya or Aztecs. The use of the bark of the "fever tree" was introduced into European medicine by Jesuit missionaries whose... | Globalization and disease |
c_q0k1yrexhtlt | A study in 2012 of thousands of genetic markers for Plasmodium falciparum samples confirmed the African origin of the parasite in South America (Europeans themselves have been affected by this disease through Africa): it borrowed from the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-nineteenth the two main roads of the slave trad... | Globalization and disease |
c_os9wdzp64a1c | In many areas of Africa, there is limited running water. The residents' use of wells and cisterns provides many sites for the breeding of mosquitoes and spread of the disease. Mosquitoes use areas of standing water like marshes, wetlands, and water drums to breed. | Globalization and disease |
c_1yf3gol1ibtt | The bacterium that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is generally spread when an infected person coughs and another person inhales the bacteria. Once inhaled TB frequently grows in the lungs, but can spread to any part of the body. Although TB is highly contagious, in most cases the human body is able to... | Globalization and disease |
c_6ousyrfgwdyy | If and when the disease does become active in the body, it can multiply rapidly, causing the person to develop many symptoms including cough (sometimes with blood), night sweats, fever, chest pains, loss of appetite and loss of weight. This disease can occur in both adults and children and is especially common among th... | Globalization and disease |
c_k9hw2fgyb2bc | It has been called the "white plague". According to the WHO, approximately fifty percent of people infected with TB today live in Asia. | Globalization and disease |
c_gaovbt5bim85 | It is the most prevalent, life-threatening infection among AIDS patients. It has increased in areas where HIV seroprevalence is high.Air travel and the other methods of travel which have made global interaction easier, have increased the spread of TB across different societies. Luckily, the BCG vaccine was developed, w... | Globalization and disease |
c_odxfi0k2omh2 | But, the vaccine does not provide substantial protection against the more virulent forms of TB found among adults. Most forms of TB can be treated with antibiotics to kill the bacteria. The two antibiotics most commonly used are rifampicin and isoniazid. | Globalization and disease |
c_jia40jy2h6ax | There are dangers, however, of a rise of antibiotic-resistant TB. The TB treatment regimen is lengthy, and difficult for poor and disorganized people to complete, increasing resistance of bacteria. Antibiotic-resistant TB is also known as "multidrug-resistant tuberculosis." | Globalization and disease |
c_if5snqqiwclu | "Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis" is a pandemic that is on the rise. Patients with MDR-TB are mostly young adults who are not infected with HIV or have other existing illness. Due to the lack of health care infrastructure in underdeveloped countries, there is a debate as to whether treating MDR-TB will be cost effecti... | Globalization and disease |
c_w8ciu783ee0z | The reason is the high cost of "second-line" antituberculosis medications. It has been argued that the reason the cost of treating patients with MDR-TB is high is because there has been a shift in focus in the medical field, in particular the rise of AIDS, which is now the world's leading infectious cause of death. Non... | Globalization and disease |
c_2tq6ijy3zgcx | HIV and AIDS are among the newest and deadliest diseases. According to the World Health Organization, it is unknown where the HIV virus originated, but it appeared to move from animals to humans. It may have been isolated within many groups throughout the world. It is believed that HIV arose from another, less harmful ... | Globalization and disease |
c_t8t4sp445eaj | The first two AIDS/HIV cases were detected in 1981. As of 2013, an estimated 1.3 million persons in the United States were living with HIV or AIDS, almost 110,000 in the UK and an estimated 35 million people worldwide are living with HIV".Despite efforts in numerous countries, awareness and prevention programs have not... | Globalization and disease |
c_86jq0m031sw1 | Even in countries where the epidemic has a very high impact, such as Eswatini and South Africa, a large proportion of the population do not believe they are at risk of becoming infected. Even in countries such as the UK, there is no significant decline in certain at-risk communities. 2014 saw the greatest number of new... | Globalization and disease |
c_6wpxxa2wtrwx | The Ebola outbreak, which was the 26th outbreak since 1976, started in Guinea in March 2014. The WHO warned that the number of Ebola patients could rise to 20,000, and said that it used $489m (£294m) to contain Ebola within six to nine months. The outbreak was accelerating. | Globalization and disease |
c_1zpfl4y106ai | Medecins sans Frontieres has just opened a new Ebola hospital in Monrovia, and after one week it is already a capacity of 120 patients. It said that the number of patients seeking treatment at its new Monrovia centre was increasing faster than they could handle both in terms of the number of beds and the capacity of th... | Globalization and disease |
c_82faw0rhrrba | Leptospirosis, also known as the "rat fever" or "field fever" is an infection caused by Leptospira. Symptoms can range from none to mild such as headaches, muscle pains, and fevers; to severe with bleeding from the lungs or meningitis. Leptospira is transmitted by both wild and domestic animals, most commonly by rodent... | Globalization and disease |
c_v7h9l63tunde | It is often transmitted by animal urine or by water or soil containing animal urine coming into contact with breaks in the skin, eyes, mouth, or nose. The countries with the highest reported incidence are located in the Asia-Pacific region (Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand) with incidence rates over 10 per 100... | Globalization and disease |
c_h2tso2ou16cd | The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the name Disease X in 2018 to focus on preparations and predictions of a major pandemic. | Globalization and disease |
c_e87fz5rtdkko | The virus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China. It was first detected in December 2019, which is why scientists called it COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). This outbreak has since caused a health issue in the city of Wuhan, China which evolved into a global pandemic. The World Health Organization officially declared ... | Globalization and disease |
c_cnqvpqj4z5p9 | Epidemiologists have also warned of the virus's contagiousness. Specialists have declared that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is still unknown. The generally accepted notion among virologists and experts is that the action of inhaling droplets from an infected person is most likely the way SARS-CoV-2 is spreading. | Globalization and disease |
c_psr1prg2b2jw | As more people travel and more goods and capital are traded globally, COVID-19 cases started to slowly appear all over the world. Some of the symptoms that COVID-19 patients could experience is shortness of breath (which might be a sign of pneumonia), cough, fever, and diarrhea. The three most recorded and common sympt... | Globalization and disease |
c_i4ingjztc2zx | COVID-19 is also categorized among the viruses that can show no symptoms in the carrier. Asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers transmitted the virus to many people which eventually did show symptoms, some being deadly.The first number of cases was detected in Wuhan, China, the origin of the outbreak. On December 31, 2019, Wuh... | Globalization and disease |
c_ijhu7xhscrit | Proper identification of a novel coronavirus was developed and reported, making the pneumonia cases in China the first reported cases of COVID-19. As of November 25, 2021, there have been around 260 million confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world. Confirmed deaths as a result of COVID-19 is over 5 million globally. | Globalization and disease |
c_l0hbu2xeqgl6 | Over 235 million of the 260 million confirmed COVID-19 cases have successfully recovered. Countries showing lack of preparation and awareness in January and February 2020 are now reporting the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases. The United States leads the worldwide count with almost 49 million confirmed cases. | Globalization and disease |
c_ny8umd7i22e5 | Deaths in The United States have crossed 798,000, maintaining the highest death count of any country. Brazil, Russia, Spain, UK, and Italy have all suffered because of the increase in cases, leading to an impaired health system unable to attend to so many sick people at one time. The first-ever confirmed case of COVID-... | Globalization and disease |
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