Capstone Project - 2017: Infectious Diseases

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Globalization brings the world together through trade, communication, and technology. How globalization affects the environment and society, however, can have broad implications on how infectious diseases spread among humans. As the AIDS/HIV epidemic has illustrated, a disease that emerges or re-emerges anywhere in the world can now move rapidly around the globe. With the increased ease of air travel and the growth of international trade, infectious diseases have more opportunities to spread than in previous eras. Infectious microbes (pathogens) can travel from one place to another via people, insects, exotic animals, or in shipments of fruits, meats, or vegetables.

Source: Global Issues in Context Online Collection, 2016

Questions to Consider about Infectious Diseases

• What can we do to prevent the spread of infectious diseases?

• How can the world prepare itself for the next pandemic?

• How so infectious diseases affect the poor and what can the world do to help?

• What is the best way to eradicate mosquitoes to prevent the spread of infectious diseases?

• Who should pay for the study and creation of vaccines for infectious diseases? For the distribution of vaccines?

• Have other conditions, such as global warming or world poverty, contributed to the spread infectious diseases? What can nations do in response?

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