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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....