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Infectious Disease Return in Zaire, Rwanda, India, and the United States

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conquered, are returning with a vengeance throughout the world, claims Laurie Garrett (1996), Health and Science Writer for Newsday. Rising population densities, the advent of jet travel, environmental  destruction, and changing social mores are among the many factors aggravating the surfacing and spread of disease. Taking stock of the multitude of emerging or reemerging diseases, scientists today  know that microbes--far from being eradicated--pose an unprecedented threat to human health. "In my travels overseas I could see diseases that I thought had been conquered were in fact killing  children right and left," Garrett said. "The first time I saw a child dying of measles, I learned the folly of ever describing any disease as minor or eradicated." The  following subtitles are areas of major interest from Laurie Garretts 1996 article, "The Return of Infectious Disease in Foreign Affairs magazine: The Post Anti-biotic Era: Since World  War II, medical staff throughout the world has pushed itself and its patients through a "health transition," with the preconceived notion, that the antibiotics developed during the war years would  eliminate major epidemic style diseases in the future. The optimism culminated in 1978 when the member states of the United Nations signed the "Health for All, 2000" accord. The  agreement set ambitious goals for the eradication of disease, predicting that even the poorest nations would undergo a health transition before the millennium, with life expectancies rising markedly. According to  Garrett, all that might have happened except for a couple of " small" planning errors: 1) that microbes were biologically stationary targets and that diseases could be geographically contained.  We have recently discovered that microbes have an amazing ability for adaptation and change. According to Garrett, the genetic blueprints of some microbes contain DNA and RNA codes