Warning: Diseases from Animals
by Renay
Health is related to everybody, and we have to care about our body in the whole life. Nothing is more precious than having a healthy body. So, I did some researches about health in recent days in Topics in the Media class with my group members. I especially focus on diseases from animals. A disease from animals means that human beings infect some diseases which are from animals, such as SARS.
More and more people’s deaths are related to diseases from animals. According to the article, "Human Deaths from Animal Diseases on the Rise", 50 million people caught diseases from animals from 2000 to 2005, and 78,000 of them died. For example, the bird flu can make human beings dead, because it's contains the virus called H5N1, and already killed 145 people. I have another example can show that diseases from animals make people afraid.
For instance, I believe that everybody still remember SARS. It infected people from all over the world in 2003. Everybody just stayed at home without working for some months, because the rate of SARS’ death was too high. According to the article “Sequence shows that animal spawned SARS virus,” the virus in SARS is from animals. Researchers cannot be sure that which animal is the criminal of SARS, but most of them think that is a animal called Paguma larvata taivana.
Because of this situation, scientists and doctors are trying to cure those diseases that are from animals. So far, they just give a vaccine to human beings, and they say that they will try to find more ways to deal with this kind of serious situation.
In conclusion, we need to protect ourselves from diseases from animals. Too keep appropriate distance from animals is a good way, I think. Especially for some people who like to be with their pets. As we know, if a woman who is pregnant, it's better to live without pets, because the fur from pets can cause some dieasese to babies. You can see this link for more detail.
Comments (2)
Ying Liu said
at 4:08 pm on Dec 8, 2008
It's very true that it is potential dangerous to get some disease from animals.especially,for people who have pets.Recently, there are all kinds of terrible disease in the world,and most of them are caused by animals,like SARS.It's horrible to be even mentioned today for Chinese.Your article is very helpful for us.I guess there must be many visitors here.
kimx1984@... said
at 11:07 am on Dec 9, 2008
I remembered how seriously SARS affected people's fear at that time in Asian countries. The number of Korean people who got SARS was reportedly smaller than other countries, some scientists argue that the way of eating habit might have affected it. They said that lactic bacteria may have helped having resistance against SARS, because Koreans consume a lot of lactic bacteria considerably through some foods like "Kimchi".
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