Sustainability and the Public’s Health
Medicine Public Health
How Diseases Spread Urbanization Population: 9 billion people by 2050 Increased air travel Agricultural changes: Food handling practices Forced migration Climate change...heat / precipitation
1918 Pandemic Influenza Killed 50 million people worldwide
Climate Impacts Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome 1993 Several years of drought followed by excessive rainfall Increase in rodent population
White-footed deer mouse
West Nile virus never before seen in the Western hemisphere
West Nile Virus 2007: Kern County, CA: Rise in Foreclosures = Abandoned Pools
Dengue Fever finger_lakes/505575/cdc-warns-of- dengue-fever-after-new-cases/
Malaria
Pandemic Influenza Person-to-Person
Nathan Wolfe: Virologist nts_for_the_next_aids.htmlhttp:// nts_for_the_next_aids.html Why did we let these behaviors continue? Who’s responsibility is it to prevent emerging infectious diseases?