Akash Patel
Current Events Article 1
The article, “Homeless Camps Are Infectious Disease Time Bombs,” by Alex Berezow on the internet caught my eye right after searching for “infectious diseases.” Berezow starts off the article by describing the ignorance of infectious diseases in America, largely because the US is a developed country. He goes off and talks about why people typically don’t worry about microbial organisms. He says that most Americans don’t have to worry about infectious diseases like malaria, measles, or polio because of the prevention tactics used by county, state, and federal health officials. Some of these tactics include implementing clean water supply, enforcing vaccination, and finally, pasteurization of many milk products …show more content…
I was thinking in my head, “How did an infectious disease break out in the United States of America in the 21st century?” Maybe I live under a rock but I don’t recall hearing a lot about infection disease outbreaks in the United States besides the occasional outbreaks of Meningitis. I’m still shocked while writing this reflection because what happened could have been prevented! Above all it made me really upset to hear about the living conditions that homeless people have to face, it’s not at all fair that because these people are homeless that it’s okay for them to be placed in living conditions in which viruses such as Hepatitis A thrive. I feel like the media doesn’t give enough attention to issues that are causing the deaths of American lives. Hepatitis A is an infection disease of the liver and about 16 American lives were lost, but the media itself is focused on the tweets of President Donald Trump, like how can a tweet such as “Covfefe” be worth more attention than 16 American lives. The only reason why I found out about what happened in San Diego is because I was asked to write a current events reflection on infectious diseases, which is crazy. I don’t understand why this outbreak didn’t catch the attention of news reporters. Lawmakers need pressure from both the media and the American people, so that they can make changes to prevent deaths of American lives, the author even says that these homeless shelters are “ticking time bombs,” for more infectious disease that can kill Americans regardless if they are homeless or not. If homeless people had access to better living conditions and if infectious diseases weren’t largely ignored or neglected by the general public and the media, the outbreak in San Diego wouldn’t have taken the lives of 16 Americans. The US is a developed country that has counter measures in place to prevent large outbreaks of infectious diseases from developing and
Current Events Article 1
The article, “Homeless Camps Are Infectious Disease Time Bombs,” by Alex Berezow on the internet caught my eye right after searching for “infectious diseases.” Berezow starts off the article by describing the ignorance of infectious diseases in America, largely because the US is a developed country. He goes off and talks about why people typically don’t worry about microbial organisms. He says that most Americans don’t have to worry about infectious diseases like malaria, measles, or polio because of the prevention tactics used by county, state, and federal health officials. Some of these tactics include implementing clean water supply, enforcing vaccination, and finally, pasteurization of many milk products …show more content…
I was thinking in my head, “How did an infectious disease break out in the United States of America in the 21st century?” Maybe I live under a rock but I don’t recall hearing a lot about infection disease outbreaks in the United States besides the occasional outbreaks of Meningitis. I’m still shocked while writing this reflection because what happened could have been prevented! Above all it made me really upset to hear about the living conditions that homeless people have to face, it’s not at all fair that because these people are homeless that it’s okay for them to be placed in living conditions in which viruses such as Hepatitis A thrive. I feel like the media doesn’t give enough attention to issues that are causing the deaths of American lives. Hepatitis A is an infection disease of the liver and about 16 American lives were lost, but the media itself is focused on the tweets of President Donald Trump, like how can a tweet such as “Covfefe” be worth more attention than 16 American lives. The only reason why I found out about what happened in San Diego is because I was asked to write a current events reflection on infectious diseases, which is crazy. I don’t understand why this outbreak didn’t catch the attention of news reporters. Lawmakers need pressure from both the media and the American people, so that they can make changes to prevent deaths of American lives, the author even says that these homeless shelters are “ticking time bombs,” for more infectious disease that can kill Americans regardless if they are homeless or not. If homeless people had access to better living conditions and if infectious diseases weren’t largely ignored or neglected by the general public and the media, the outbreak in San Diego wouldn’t have taken the lives of 16 Americans. The US is a developed country that has counter measures in place to prevent large outbreaks of infectious diseases from developing and