Health Curriculum: Unit 1--Main text: Grades 7-11

Fighting Disease:
Health At The End Of The Millennium
Another Wired Curriculum from The United Nations CyberSchoolBus

	Introduction
	How They Work
	How They Spread
	Poverty and Disease
	Prevention
	Immunization

Unit 1
Infectious Diseases: A Concern for All

Global spread

Poverty creates vulnerability and the majority of the world's poor are in developing countries. Consequently, a majority of the people being harmed by fatal or debilitating diseases are in poorer countries. This is not to say, however, that industrialized countries are immune to new or re-emerging diseases. They can affect people regardless of who they are and where they live:

	Diphtheria had been unknown in Europe for decades. Once the epidemic started in the Russian Federation in 1990, it spread to at least 15 eastern European countries.
	Escherichia Coli, or E.coli, causes epidemics in both industrialized and developing countries.
	Hospital infections are responsible for 70,000 deaths a year in the United States alone.
	Hantavirus infections that cause pulmonary syndromes have been detected in more than 20 American states.

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