At Issue Series - Do Infectious Diseases Pose a Serious Threat?

by Viqi Wagner (Editor)

Most of the deadliest known infectious diseases are either spreading or becoming drug resistant, and dozens of previously unknown diseases have emerged since the 1970s. Public- and private-sector experts debate the reasons for, scope of, and best responses to infectious disease threats including SARS, bioterrorism agents, and AIDS.

126 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 2004

Reviews

[Sammantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Non-Fiction book Do Infectious Diseases Pose A Serious Threat, was a very informative book. For students or for just general information about vaccines and infectious diseases this book was very dense with information. The company At Issue takes many people’s articles and stories and puts them in one place to help people expand knowledge on the specific topic of vaccines and the threats of major diseases.
With every article there is an opinion, some believing infectious diseases such as AIDS are a serious threat and others posing a different conclusion. Overall the book was composed of helpful researches on the topics of infectious diseases and the effects on human health. Also with the up coming of vaccines and how that helped the human species thrive. Like every ending, how can we prevent the problem at hand? Well in the book, there are many technological advances we have made in medicine. One is sanitation and the other is vaccines.
With those medical advances made, we are now able to control the infectious diseases killing many. Although some are harder to wipe out they have become easier to prevent such as STDs or AIDS and HIV. Throughout this whole book there was both sides being represented in a very science matter. There was less bias yet you could still sense some as always within research and trying to make sense of the data at hand.
I was very interested with the STD part of the book because it is something not usually talked about yet most commonly caught by human beings. “Historically, STDs have...been overlooked in the global fight against infectious diseases; as a result, they continue to drain the lives of young and old.(pg 81)” Even with the availability of help or prevention of the disease, many do not seek after it. I did not have a part of the book that did not provide me the information I needed to help expand my knowledge on the subject of infectious diseases and vaccines.