can anybody give me a good example of a "usual disease" for our society and how i can make a?
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Humanity is the cancer of the earth
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This is an issue that I spend a lot of time thinking about. Being sort of closet theoretical evolutionist, I wonder just how poorly equipped our species is becoming with each medical/genetic advance we discover and then apply.\n\nYour question implies the direct application of genetic engineering and manipulation to the human race -- which is an area where there is a lot more potential for than has actually been applied, thus far. I propose that our plight has been cultivated by the application of much more mundane medicine -- to be honest, mundane might not be the best choice of words here because many of these advances are truly grandiose. However, for every modern advance that has come down the way, we surely have done nothing but weaken the genetics of our species.\n\nThink about every time an antibiotic is administered? Yes, we are helping that person overcome an infection that he/she was otherwise ill equipped to rid themselves of via their own immune system. But look where that’s got us. After only a few generations of using – and grossly misusing – antibiotics, these same organisms we were able to fight off have developed resistance to. Now, not only are these bacteria back weeding out the less genetically fit folks among us, there are literally orders of magnitude more of such people susceptible to infection because they have been able to propagate these deficiencies through procreation. In this instance, saving thousands of people of lives over the years may ultimately cost millions of other theirs. You have to ask yourself: Which situation is better.\n\nWhat you have to truly realize is that is it more correct to think and apply our medical abilities on the individual. We are able to heal many diseases and disorders that, even as recent as 50 years ago, would have never even been detected, let alone treatable. But there are a litany more that, even though they aren't curable, they are able to be treated and controlled to the point that become nothing more than chronic inconveniences -- whereas in prior times, these diseases and disorders would have been lethal. Every time we have been able to sustain a person's life beyond that which the technologies of prior years could have, we are allowing those people the opportunity to procreate. Because we don't treat these disorders and genetic susceptibilities to diseases at the genetic level, the offspring of these individuals still carry these "deficiencies.” And thus pass them along for future generations. This is great for the coffers of the medical establishment – acting as ready-made population in need of their services, but it is definitely polluting our gene pool with lesser-fit alleles that would have been eliminated by the process of natural selection. If medicine wanted to truly live up to its credo of: To practice and prescribe to the best of my ability for the good of my patients, and to try to avoid harming them; and to never deliberately do harm to anyone for anyone else's interest, maybe the medical field should take in consideration what they are doing to the species – something that Hippocrates could not have even contemplated let alone include in his oath.\n\nWhere we humans miss the boat at is thinking that we are always one step ahead of nature. What we are realizing is that’s probably a huge miscalculation. We need to take a step back and reconsider our objectives. Is medicine’s and science’s ultimate goal to help individuals within the species or to help the species?
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We definitely need screening for disease.  Resistant TB is now here, we had eradicated it in this country, and legal immigrants are screened.  Ditto polio, and to at least one account, leprosy.\n\nI'm going to include a link to something I got off of a question today.  The rhetoric is strong, but the citations and links are there to the important stuff, so I still think it has value.  It discusses health issues in illegal immigration.\n\nhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm
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how does this have to do with diseases and conditions?
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The two diseases are totally different.  This comes from a person who has lived with folks with each disease.\nCheck out the resource for more info on the symptoms.\n\nIt IS possible for a person to have both though.
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In the main, they are an attempt to bridge the gap between human social structures / lmitations and the reality of epidemiology. Nations, religious arrangments, economic regimes, cultural patterns, linguistic groupings, etc are due to historical developments, resource availability, trade route patterns, etc. None of these has any congruity with disease spread patterns, save perhaps the trade route business. \n\n================\nhistorically known background\n\nIn the past, disease traveled to some extent along trade routes. A famous example is bubonic plague ("the black plague"), which was once limited to the NE Asian steppes as a disease of small rodents which sometimes affected humans. For the first time in history, the Mongol armies traveled fast enough that an infected human had a good enough chance to spread the bacterium to a new population on the borders of its range. It traveled West with them in stages all the way to Europe where it encountered a large immunologically naive poulation with the well-known, if poorly understood in any detail, result. 30-60% mortality throughout Europe and a depopulation which had serious religious, political, and economic effects for some centuries. In fact, that bacterium's spread has continued via human agency into very recent times. It arrived in North America aboard a ship from China in the 1880s (some researchers think they can even identify the very ship!) and is now epidemic among small rodents and their fleas in much of Western North America. Syphilis most likely originated in the New World and was carried back to Europe by Columbus' crew as it first appears there around 1500 as an acute fulminating disease (think 'flesh-eating bactria', not the chronic infection of today) during a military campaign in northern Italy by the French.\n=============\npublic health tasks \n\nPublic health agencies attempt to intervene in the chain of transmission of disease by developing standards for sanitation, by financing research and development of vaccines and treatments of common diseases (eg, yellow fever in connection with building the Panama Canal), by developing an recommending screening protocols for detecting the contagious who are traveling or shipping internationally, by advocating effective standards of treatment across differing medical regimes, etc. It was a pioneering public health investigation (by Snow) which identified the transmission path of cholera a generation+ before Pasteur and any real understanding of the actual causative agent. Any society taking those results seriously effectively cured its cholera problem forthwith. \n\nInternational public health agencies attempt to do much the same, bridging national boundaries in an attempt to match the disregard for those boundaries of diseases and their vectors (eg, insects, ticks, ...).\n\n===============\nexamples of large scale efforts \n\nA gloriously successful example is the eradication of the ghastly disease smallpox from the world (save as samples held in government labs in the US and i Russia). Smallpox was unusually susceptible to attack as it infected only humans, was readily identifiable in a few days after infection, had an effective vaccine (the very first in Western medicine, in fact), and had a short course, after which the victim was either dead (about 30%) or immune to further infection. A joint effort by public health authorities world wide progrssively broke transmission chains and finally isolated and quarantined the last known infected human in Somalia. Polio is a similar disease and an attempt to similarly eradicate it is underway; a couple of years ago, it was confined to a district in Western Africa and looked to be seriously in trouble. Religious political objections, primarily in northern Nigeria, put the campaign back quite a lot, and polio is now significatntly present in several of the contiguous countries. \n\nNot all disease have characteristics which make such attacks po
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I would think that any local medical center or hospital could offer materials for this type of research.  The medical section of the University library would also be an excellent resource.  Online is allows a good place to start though.
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Give me a million dollars! What's up?\nWhat kind of health information?\nWhat do you want to know about diseases?
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Thi biggest killers of otherwise healthy people are heart attacks and stroke, followed by cancer, then any number of inflammatory diseases and diabetes. Looking at the major risk factors for these, and especially which factors put you at risk for more than one, is a good way to go about deciding what to focus on:\n\nSmoking\nObesity\nHigh blood pressure\nHigh LDL, low HDL (cholesterol)\nPoor diet\nLack of exercise.\n\nTake care of these, and you cut your risk of serious disease over 50%, increase your lifespan, and more importantly, increase the number of years of health.
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See Hulda Clark's book 'A Cure for all diseases'\n\nwww.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/ms.php
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There is no such disease in the medical literature.\n\nThere is however a fictional account of somebody with Reuben's disease:\n\nhttp://nothorse.org/archives/Fullstory
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I would like to live in a future era where disease and illness have been eliminated.  Where all people and nations live harmoniously and in peace.  I wish it could be the near future, but I have this feeling it will not happen for many centuries.
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Way to Go Buddy!!Good job!You should be an example for many others like you to take this step and educate our study deprived society!!Good luck!below is a link i could find!i am sure someone there could guide you well.
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you could try contacting your local social service or human services office and ask them for information. also public health might have some information. \n\nthey could also tell you about advocate agencies such as AARM that advocate for people with special needs and also provide education services.
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You could perform a social science experiment by questioning say 10 to 15 cancer patients and asked how it has effected their lifes and how they cope with it. Then state the differrences between those who are coping well and make the best of things and those people who let themselfs get depressed and want to give up. Maybe lifestyles, and what they hold on to or their backrounds that may help or hinder them.
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Health and environmental issues: Cure for HIV (Aids), Cancer and such disease, unhealthy condition of the body or mind, plants, society, etc...
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"Many dishes make diseases."