Health Explainer: ‘Victorian Diseases’
JUST two months into 2024 and we've already seen outbreaks of several killer diseases - some of which we had already consigned to the history books."In the West we tend think of these diseases as having disappeared," Professor Tom Solomon, director of The Pandemic Institute, tells The Sun.
"However, they have not gone at all, they are just being controlled by good public health measures," he adds - life-saving measures that experts warn are waning. Here, we look at each bug making a re-emergence, where cases are rising, and we ask infectious disease scientists if these outbreaks could become a bigger issue...were reported between January and October 2023, up significantly from the 941 in all of 2022, according to the World Health Organisation , told the Sun.This appears to be true for many recent cases in the US, for which the majority have been reported in people who get too close to prairie dogs.
"We could see more cases in the future if we live closer to animals and if climate change continues to get worse," the Prof warned. The disease is easily treatable with modern medicine - but left untreated, most infected will die within a week.
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