What is the first things that comes up to your mind when we talking about HIV. Most ideas of people might be the negative sides of this disease situation; however, there are some good news that are surprised me. According to “Dramatic drop in global HIV infections” in the BBC News Health (2013) which reports the figures of the new AIDS infection and the death have declined dramatically in the last decade. Moreover, the HIV treatment can be access for more people with affordable prices; therefore, the researcher states that the world will stop the AIDS epidemic in a few years ahead.
AIDS is the severe contagious disease which is embedded in my head that it cannot be healed and the patients are going to die. Therefore, we can see the successful development of medical care that can save more people life. Maybe in the next decade, AIDS would heal by only one injection. However, are our life secured from the sickness? Recently, the Syria uses chemical weapon during civil war and cause a lot of damage in life. It is the one to illustrate that while someone create the healing, someone create the damaging. Another example is a few years ago, the recently bird flu name H5N1 had vital damage the domestic poultry across Asia including serious damage to people life who infected. I can remember the panic feeling of this disease among Thai people.
There are a lot of diseases in this world and numerous of new coming. Is the medical care innovation the only way to solve those problems? How can we protect our life from virus by ourselves? Someone said that the best doctor in the world is yourself. I agree with that and I also think the good protector from disease is ourselves responsibility. For example, we can choose what to eat and what time to go to sleep , or while you have got a flu, you should have a responsibility to others people by wearing a mask. Maybe a marathon like Alston’s article “The running of madness” can be a good choice to make you body stronger.
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Reference
Tulip Mazumdar.(2013,September 23). 'Dramatic' drop in global HIV infections.BBC New Healths. Retrieved September 24,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24208972
Alston. (2013,September 23). The running for madness.Class Blog - AEP at AUA. Retrieved September 24,2013 from http://peteraep.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-running-for-madness_23.html
Thanks, I totally agree with your comments in the last paragraph, but it's hard to keep those good habit in your life.
ReplyDeleteI think that a good start is to get those habits in your life: for example, to start sitting down and writing at the same times a couple of times a day. Doing some more relaxed response writing is something I've made an habitual part of feeding my coffee addiction.
DeleteI agree with your idea that people can protect themselves from diseases .
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on our responsibility about protection. Anyway, I do think that we can't avoid virus or bacteria which are coexist with us. Some are dangerous for someone, but some are not. I once heard that there was a couple who have HIV in the same time, but a woman died first because of her weaker body. That leads me to believe that there always are many bacteria and virus around us and I can easily get them every time. If I want to survive in this world, I have to be prepared and ready to fight them all the time.
ReplyDeleteYour post is so interesting and I completely agree with you; particularly, in the third and last paragraph, I think people can directly create the new terrible disease by using chemical or biological weapons and indirectly by cause the global warming. In my opinion, for this case the indirect one is more severe than the direct one because when temperature increases a lot of new diseases are creating, and microbes can mutate dramatically. However, the scientists can invent or find solutions to face with this problem but they can catch it all.
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