BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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the overuse of vaccinations in treating people infected with TB
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increased urbanization coupled with too few screening and control programs
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identifying people with chronic coughs that may be active carriers
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quarantining people who have an incurable form of TB
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utilizing viruses as transmission vectors for gene therapy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Influences of urbanization on selected infectious diseases. Rapid increase in slums leads to poor access to clean water and sanitation. Diarrheal disease is still the most common cause of death in children under 5 years. Reliance on large agribusinesses can lead to wide-spread outbreaks of food-borne illness.
Detailed explanation-3: -HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria are diseases of poverty and marginalization, with a heavy toll among populations that are chronically disadvantaged.
Detailed explanation-4: -The increasing density of buildings caused by land urbanization increases the risk of the spread of infectious diseases. Moreover, the impact of urbanization on the spread of infectious diseases has regional heterogeneity.