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In Memoriam
The outbreak of highly contagious influenza among horses in Australia is a reminder that the world faces an unprecedented risk from disease.
Shortly before the outbreak, the first in an island continent that imposes stringent bio-security measures, the World Health Organisation warned that infectious diseases were emerging more quickly and spreading faster around the globe than ever.
The WHO, an agency of the United Nations, said in its annual report that population growth, settlement of previously uninhabited areas, rapid urbanisation, intensive farming practices, environmental degradation and the misuse of medical drugs had disrupted the largely unseen world of microbes. As a result, nearly 40 diseases exist today that were unknown barely a generation ago. Many have the potential to infect humans as well as animals.
Meanwhile, the WHO says that human infections are becoming harder to treat as mainstay antimicrobial drugs fail to counter target diseases faster than replacement drugs are being developed.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10463906
Shortly before the outbreak, the first in an island continent that imposes stringent bio-security measures, the World Health Organisation warned that infectious diseases were emerging more quickly and spreading faster around the globe than ever.
The WHO, an agency of the United Nations, said in its annual report that population growth, settlement of previously uninhabited areas, rapid urbanisation, intensive farming practices, environmental degradation and the misuse of medical drugs had disrupted the largely unseen world of microbes. As a result, nearly 40 diseases exist today that were unknown barely a generation ago. Many have the potential to infect humans as well as animals.
Meanwhile, the WHO says that human infections are becoming harder to treat as mainstay antimicrobial drugs fail to counter target diseases faster than replacement drugs are being developed.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10463906