Explore the link between environmental change and the spread of infectious disease as we will visit a world where billions of people are still without clean drinking water or proper sanitation services and where commerce and tourism have put newly emerging diseases on our very own doorstep. In the 1970s, new vaccines and antibiotics seemed to be winning the war against infectious diseases, and most scientists were confident that the major contagious killers were retreating. However, in the last 30 years there has been a dramatic upsurge of infectious diseases all over the world, not just AIDS but insect and waterborne diseases too. Malaria, cholera, and dengue fever are spreading fast even well-policed boundaries can’t keep global pandemics away.

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