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A 5 page research paper that investigates the question of which is the greater threat to American health and well being, contagious disease or chronic. The writer closes with conclusions and speculation about the future. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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"caught" from someone else via either viral or bacterial infection. While chronic disease does entail genetic causative factors, these diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, emphysema, obesity, etc.,
are largely caused by environmental factors and unhealthy personal behaviors. Infectious, contagious disease, on the other hand, derives from exposure to microscopic organisms, that is, different types of viruses and
bacteria. While, in general, US health providers are primarily concerned with the predicted increase in chronic disease that is expected in the near future, which is due to the aging
nature of the population, as well as to disturbing trends, such as the increase in obesity, Examination of empirical literature indicates that the threat of contagious disease should not be
completely discounted. The goal of the following examination of literature is to determine the answer to which category of disease poses the greatest threat to the personal survival and well-being
of the average American. Contagious Disease Zimmer and Burke (2009) trace the evolution of the influenza virus over the course of the twentieth century, describing how the virus has
mutated, producing new strains has old ones disappear. They begin with the simultaneous appearance of a strain of the flu virus that appeared in 1918 that killed both pigs and
people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman (2006), likewise, makes the point that a virus, which public
health officials considered to be long-gone, can reemerge in new forms, once more generating problems. For example, it has been 30 years since the Marburg virus ignited a severe outbreak
of viral hemorrhagic fever in Germany, but this virus emerged and struck again in 1998 (Feldman, 2006). As this indicates, health providers and public health officials have to be
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