At all times, we must all be ever ready and prepared for new rapidly spreading infectious viruses within the human population. But what are these new threats called? We call them, 'emerging viruses'. This has already been explained by my colleague. But what I'm unterested in, is as to how we can fight this new enemy.
It is good to cure this disease after researching about it, but prevention is better than cure. Therefore, we shall learn about the causes of these emrging viruses, which we must take care to avoid, in order to prevent teh enemy from even having an opportunity to strike, or at least hinder the birth of such problems.
Firstly, we know about virus factors, those that we cannot avoid yet. Spontaneous evolution of a new virus entity and generation of a novel strain due to co-infection of different strains in an individual.
The second part consists of what we can prevent, that is, human factors, such as concentration of people with shared lifestyles, breakdown in public health, climate change, and man invading natural habitats such as cutting of forests to increase their land for development and comfort, which may cause zoonoses.
Men are typically selfish. However, we must understand what must be done, and prevent all of these factors from happening as much as possible, as much as we can survive with.
However, although I believe in doing so, there are cases where certain choices are up to you. Imagine if you are a farmer with sick chickens that are infected with avian flu. With your family starving, would you rather kill the chickens as teh government demands, or sell them illegally for bread and butter. Personally, if we were to die of hunger, I would rather send my children to teh government to take care of, and die of hunger on my own with dignity, since I do know that tehy would want it that way, and that it is better than knowing that all were killed due to my selfishness.
Think about this. What would you do?
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