What are emerging diseases?
What are emerging diseases?
Outbreaks of new diseases that were unknown before OR known diseases that are now spreading quickly in number of cases, or in number of areas where people are sick OR known infectious diseases that are persistent and can't be controlled
What’s the difference between emerging and reemerging disease?
Reemerging diseases are those that come back after they have been on a major decline
Name 3 emerging diseases.
Coronavirus infections, such as COVID-19, SARS, and MERS
HIV infections
Lyme disease
Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7
Hantavirus
Dengue fever
West Nile virus
Zika virus
Where in the United States do we have reemerging diseases?
Philadelphia- measles
What’s one factor that contributes to the reemergence of certain diseases?
Declining vaccination rates or mutations/new strains