The World Health organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak of polio cases in Syria. The
outbreak that occurred among children and was the result of them being
unimmunized and or under immunized. Ten children so far have tested positive
for polio so there are fears of a serious regional outbreak. 12 children are
said to be having side effects of polio but are awaiting the test results. This
infers that there could be thousands more that are suffering and may to be
infected. Polio is transmitted through contaminated water and food supplies
that many of the displaced Syrians come in contact with. WHO states that this
will require a massive multi-country response in order to have a chance at
getting the virus under control.
Technology is seen to some as the great leveler that will
make education and opportunity available to all but it is also seen to some as
the very thing that could continue to destroy the lives of others. Technology
can bring access to many things that people may have never had before. Those things
may be good or bad. Technology may hold the only answer for diseases without a
cure that currently exist in the world. On the other hand the same technology
that may hold a cure, when put into the wrong hands, can be used an
extermination agent for those wanting to set into place genocide.
As we read about this week in chapter 10. Under Marx theory if
these refugees and displaced Syrians had access to the resources of clean and
adequate food and water supply this polio outbreak has a very decrease chance of
occurring. Now under attack of the polio virus this could sweep across the
nations and could ultimately significant decrease the world’s population. It is
important to reiterate the importance of the basic elements of human life we
need in order to survive such as nutrition and sanitation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/who-confirms-polio-outbreak-in-syria/2013/10/29/a03c3010-40b8-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html
Cynthia BrooksOctober 30, 201311:54 am
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