World Health Day 2014.

World Health Day 2014: Preventing Vector-borne diseases – ‘Small bite, big threat’

The World Health Organization highlighted a particular risk of disease for April 7^th, which is world health day. Vector-borne diseases strike more than one billion people every year and more than one million die from those diseases. The WHO emphasized that these diseases are entirely preventable. By making a health agenda that gives a higher priority to vector control, we could save lives. Vector-borne diseases mostly effect poor population due to the large amount of poor housing conditions and un safe drinking water. By making things available such as more bug nets that are distributed to more people who might not have access to travel to a lace to get one and by providing these places with safer drinking water, we could help prevent more deaths do to these type of vector-borne diseases. Mosquito-borne dengue, for example, is now found in 100 countries, putting more than 2.5 billion people – over 40% of the world’s population at risk.

            This last statistic is a key-shocking factor in creating awareness of possible disease risks that can drastically impact our world’s population and deaths. The WHO is a create organization that seems to be great at spreading awareness about disease and health issues such as this however it would be even more helpful if each state found some way to create awareness of different types of disease and possible outbreaks worldwide. The awareness of people in the US is a good thing however it is more important to create the awareness and the proper preventative equipment to those that are in poorer regions of the world were awareness and actually help can actually save a life or even a whole communities life.

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