Non-Fiction RRE (Parasite Disease)

The article Vector-Borne disease in 2012 discusses the transmission of diseases in the year 2012.  It focuses on diseases spread by vectors such as mosquitoes.  The Europe Center for Diseases Protection and Control (ECDC) has done research over the past year and found that there is an increase in vector borne diseases.  They found several reasons for this.  One is climate change.  The transmission season lasts from spring to late fall.  But due to increase in temperature, mosquitoes stay around longer spreading more diseases.  Globalization is also another reason.  People are traveling all over the world, so diseases are spread more easily.  Also there are more and more microbes that are resistant to anti-microbial medicines.  All these reasons are contributing to spread of diseases like West Nile virus, Dengue fever, and Malaria.

          This article shows another reason why we should try and stop climate change.  If temperature increases like this, we will soon have mosquitoes flying around all year long.  We can’t stop globalization.  However we should still find other ways to contain people who are carrying certain diseases.  We also need to work on finding more antibiotics to replace the ones that have stopped working.  With more globalization we have to work harder to stop the spread of diseases.

Work Cited

Unknown. "Vector-borne Disease Transmission in 2012." - Public Service Europe. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013. <http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/2884/vector-borne-disease-transmission-in-2012>.