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Expect increased infectious disease, likely causes
For your info - look at the list of possible causes!! P. Dines
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From: Phillip Bouton, INTERNET:pbouton@naccho.org
To: Patricia Dines, 73652,1202
Date: Wed, May 21, 1997, 5:41 AM
Subject: FYI
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
"It Could Happen Here. Watching Out for Flare-Ups of Infectious
Disease Keeps Government Virologist Busy." Washington Post
Health, 20 May 97, 9.
A profile of C.J. Peters, chief of special pathogens at the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who
studies "`emerging diseases,' a term that encompasses new,
resurgent or newly recognized infections." Among the global
trends he cites as contributing to the likelihood that
serious outbreaks of infectious diseases will become more
frequent: rapid increases in human population, more frequent
international travel, bacterial resistance to antibiotics,
countries that are increasingly consuming food grown or
processed in other countries, and a lack of genetic
diversity in the breeds of domestic animals and plants used
in America.
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PD NOTE: Food for thought. For instance, I notice a number of the causes
he mentions are likely encouraged by increased globalization (ex. travel
and movement of food).... Also, I see links with genetic engineering (GE)
food issues -like the use of antibiotic resistance gene markers in GE. And
if Monsanto sells the same RR soybeans to countries around the world (vs.
their locally-developed stock), doesn't that decrease genetic diversity -
and set us up for this as well as potato famines, etc.? ... etc....