Question
Explain Health epidemics as a new source of threat to security.
Solution
(i) Health epidemics such as HIV-AIDS, bird flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread across countries through migration, business, tourism and military operations.
(ii) By 2003, an estimated four crore people were infected with HIV-AIDS worldwide, two third of them in Africa and half of the rest in South Asia.
(ii) By 2003, an estimated four crore people were infected with HIV-AIDS worldwide, two third of them in Africa and half of the rest in South Asia.
(iii) In North America and other industrialised countries, new drug therapies dramatically lowered the death rate from HIV-AIDS.
(iv)Other new and poorly understood diseases such as ebola virus, hantavirus and hepatitis c have emerged, while old diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, dengue fever and cholera have mutated into drug resistant forms that are difficult to treat.
