GLOBALIZATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Infectious diseases attack every day to human beings worldwide. Children and youth are one of the most affected since we are in daily contact with all kinds of sources of infection. According to OMS's epidemiological studies, 1500 people die every hour because of an infectious disease and half of that number are children under five years.

Avoid certain types of these diseases is very simple and does not cost much money as we might believe, but sometimes ignorance or lack of knowledge caused many people to be infected. The government of Costa Rica makes a great effort to bring knowledge of all possible methods of asepsis to every corner of the country and avoid further investment in the cure of these diseases.

But Costa Rica, despite being a developing country, has very good health programs, unlike many countries also developing. For example, in some African countries, people do not have a dollar per person per year, to give medicine to their residents. Although some of these drugs are very inexpensive, are not easily acquired by the lack of good distribution.

Many of these patients, sick or dying, are also parents or mothers who carry the daily sustenance to their homes, creating a human crisis where the poor get poorer because they do not have enough money to alleviate the diseases in their family. This is where public health institutions should act to help meet the health and welfare needs of every human being.

Among the diseases that attack the human being, according to OMS, malaria, measles, sleeping sickness, leprosy, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. Many of these diseases are eradicated in countries with access to vaccination. Millions of dollars are spent on wars could be well used in the cure of all these world-renowned infectious diseases.