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DISEASES CAUSED BY WATER POLLUTION
July 2nd, 2010 | 
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Of the 37 most common diseases among the population of Latin America, 21 are related to lack of water and contaminated water. Worldwide these diseases account for 25 million deaths annually.
Diseases transmitted through contaminated water may be caused by standing water with insect breeding, direct contact with water, consuming contaminated water or chemical and microbiological water misuse. Diseases transmitted through contaminated water, insects and bacteria are: cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, diarrhea, infectious hepatitis, parasitic, filariasis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, conjunctivitis and ascariasis, among other . The pool water can also transmit diseases such as athlete’s foot, septic throat, ear and eye infections. Transmitted disease, symptoms and treatment depend on the type of microorganisms present in water and its concentration.
Vaccines and Public Health
For many centuries, especially from the formation of cities, people lived at the mercy of epidemics. Around 400 BC, Hippocrates distinguished between the diseases that usually affect populations (endemeion) of the “visiting” from the outside (epidemeion), defining and differentiating epidemic, as an objective of the realidad.1 For Moreover, in the biblical book of Revelation (circa 100 AD) is described as one of its four fearsome riders, the Plague, (a) hierarchy as one of the scourges of humanity, inevitable and inexplicable.
The development of the first vaccine in the West, 2 applied by Edward Jenner in England in the eighteenth century, introduced the first instrument to deal with epidemic diseases. The smallpox inoculation technique was applied in China many centuries ago. Jenner’s proposals were supported and financed by the wife of a British diplomat who had seen the technique in that country. The development of nineteenth century science allowed us to learn the characteristics and modes of transmission of infectious diseases, allowing the development of preventive tools, among which the most impact were drinking water and vaccinations.
In Argentina, there was in the early 60′s a big increase in value of vaccines, probably due to the coincidence in time of the polio epidemic of 1956 to 1957 and the emergence of the first vaccines for the disease (1955 Salk, Sabin 1960).
Public health is endangered by the repressive measures against HIV
Rights violations forced to hide for those who need information or treatment
New York .- The Cairo police have arrested four men suspected of having HIV, signaling an intensification of the crackdown that endangers public health and violates basic human rights, Amnesty International today expressed Rights Watch and in a joint statement.
With these 12 men are now detained in the context of a campaign against people suspected of being HIV positive. Four have been sentenced to one year in prison, and the other eight remained in custody. Both organizations have urged the Egyptian authorities to respect human rights of these men and their immediate release if they do not want to cause profound damage to initiatives for HIV / AIDS in the country.
“In their misguided attempt to apply Egyptian law on the unjust homosexual conduct, authorities are conducting a crackdown against people living with HIV / AIDS,” said Rebecca Schleifer, of the HIV / AIDS and Human Rights Human Rights Watch. This not only violate basic human rights of people living with HIV / AIDS, but also endanger public health by making request information on the prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS is a risk. ”
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