Are We Winning the Battle Against Disease?

For the last two years that we've been through because of the covid-19 virus, do you think we are now winning the battle against it? During those years, the government do the best shot they could do just to protect our nation from being infected,yet still it reach our country. Then the whole nation lockdown just to control people for being infected with this unseen enemy,the doctors do their very best just to save many lives, hospitals are in full of patients, every city is in strict protocol just to control the virus from spreading. But still it reach to every island of the country,many people was infected,many lives was taken. It took us 2-3 years in battling. But this isn't new at all, because even on the previous years the world is already battling many type of disease.

The Age-Old Fight for Better Health

TB (tuberculosis) is a very old killer. Literally millions of people have suffered and died from TB. Evidence of the disease has been found in mummies from ancient Egypt and Peru. Today, resurgent strains of TB kill some two million people every year. An effective antibiotic for treating tuberculosis, was discovered. This drug also proved useful for treating.

Malaria kills nearly one million children like every year. In East African villages, the average child is bitten by malaria-carrying mosquitoes. These mosquitoes are spreading to new areas, and antimalarial drugs have become less effective. Every year, an estimated million people suffer from acute malaria. Mosquito control was later promoted to reduce mortality in tropical countries.

AIDS. At the beginning of the 1980’s, just when it seemed that medical science had tamed the most dangerous microbes, this new infectious disease arose to haunt humanity. Within two decades the AIDS death toll began to rival that of the plague that swept across Eurasia—a plague that Europe never forgot.

The Black Death. The outbreak of the plague called the Black Death spread throughout Italy. Within four years, say some historians, the plague spread throughout Europe and lost about a million people.

Smallpox . An outbreak of smallpox erupted on the island of Hispaniola and the effect was catastrophic. It estimated that only a thousand people on the island survived. But successfully developed a vaccine for smallpox. During those century, vaccines have proved effective in preventing other diseases, such as polio, yellow fever, measles, and rubella.

The War Has Not Yet Been Won

Nowadays, the horrific epidemics of plague and smallpox may seem like catastrophes long since consigned to the pages of history. During the century, mankind won many battles in the war against infectious diseases, especially in industrialized countries. Doctors discovered the causes of most diseases, and they also found ways to cure them. New vaccines and antibiotics seemed like magic bullets capable of exterminating even the most stubborn disease.

However, plagues are as certain as death and taxes. TB and malaria have not gone away. And the recent AIDS pandemic has provided a grim reminder that pestilence still stalks the globe. Infectious diseases remain the world’s leading cause of death; they will remain so for a long time to come. Some doctors fear that despite remarkable progress in fighting disease, the gains of the last few decades may only be temporary.

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“The danger posed by infectious diseases has not gone away—it’s worsening,” Robert Shope.

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All we can do is to clean our environment,practice proper hygiene,follow the safety precautions /protocols and pray for a good health.

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Thank you for reading💙

03/18/2022