What Effect Do Epidemics Have On The Society

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There are many reasons why diseases become epidemics, one of the reasons is because of the disease being spread around in the world leading to an epidemic. For example, one way that a disease might spread is when a person comes in contact with a foreign animal because it could infect humans. This is called transnational spreading and it can threaten the security of many people. According to Infectious Diseases by Jennifer Brower and Peter Chalk, global trade is another type of way that epidemics are easily spread. Epidemics also have a huge impact on the society. For example, costs have a huge impact on the society because it all depends on whether the country has enough money to contain the disease. If they don’t contain the disease because

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