Worldwide Heath

Illness pandemics are throughout our history and some have even happened in the last 10 years. What aids the spreading of these viruses are carriers of the disease - anyone from rats to soldiers - traveling long distances. This was the case for both the Spanish flu in 1918 and the black plague in the 14^th century. A more recent case of fast spreading illnesses was the SARS out break in 2003 where 774 people died worldwide. A small number in comparison to the millions of deaths from the Spanish flu and black plague, but scary non the less. The disease started in China but rapidly spread worldwide because of fast and easy transportation. Because of globalization diseases such as SARS and AIDS have been able to spread around the world, affecting everyone. Yes, it wasn’t one of the positive out comes of globalization but because of globalization people worldwide were able to learn about these new diseases and how to protect themselves against them. Because of globalization organizations have been formed to create an awareness of AIDS and people from around the world have been working towards a cure. It makes me nervous to know that in this day and age it is so easy to become infected with foreign diseases like SARS but it makes me content to know that our government knows how to effectively deal with pandemics like this.