How Did Globalization Affect The Spread Of Disease

Globalization has had such a massive impact on the spread of disease and illness in the world. Increased global travel, trade in food, food-borne illness, climate change are just a few of the main reasons. Historians say that during the colonization of the Americas, smallpox and measles could only travel around the world within a span of a year. Now people can hop on a plane and be anywhere in the world in 36 hours. Threatening aspect is that an infected person could fly to another continent, accidentally spread sickness, fly back home and not even know that they were sick. Just that quickly. Globalization has helped create a network of trade routes that were also pathways for disease. History has been written through disease. In the second century, measles were spread between Rome and Asia along caravan routes and the century after these same routes were responsible for carrying smallpox which wiped out one-third of the population in affected areas. Another major epidemic occurred in the thirteenth century when Mongol horseman carrying infected fleas, brought forth the Bubonic …show more content…
It should begin at the source of where the disease exist in the first place. These diseases should researched and surveyed. Also I think improved sanitation with better water sources would keep disease down. There should be more invested in third world countries to fight these problems. I believed it takes more effort and involvement in poorer countries to slow the spread. Sanitation in my eyes is the most important issue. Disease being spread to drinking water and food sources is only going to make things worse. Cholera is a disease that is contracted through drinking water and food sources. This infection gets into the digestive tract wreaking havoc inside of the intestines. It is an epidemic in many countries of Africa. Its estimated that there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths