Unit 9.2 - Diseases

"Cough Cough, I am sick"

Creation Date: Mon Mar 24 2025

Publication Date: Wed Mar 26 2025

Intro

Hey remember those advancements in unit 9.1, well they are back.

Medicine

• Allowed us to live longer
• Diseases finally cureable:
  • Vaccines - for viruses
  • Penicillin & antibiotics - for bacteria

Economic Disparity

So not all weath distributed everywhere

• Some nations still poor
• All poor nations left with poor treatment
• Lower life expectancy

Epidemics

• The flu

  • Common cold
  • Mild Annoyance
  • Before was big deal due to causing many deaths and social unrest

• HIV/Aids

  • Didn’t want to treat
  • Lots of stigma
  • Still poor treatment in some countries

• The one I love and hate: COVID-19

  So I want to mexico and I didn’t even know we had this until I came back
  • Caused global lock down
  • Online classes
  • Allowed me to learn coding

Age Related Diseases

So because we now live a lot longer, diseases become more deadly when we older

• Many diseases becoming related to age
• New challenge in nations