Is it an coincidence that some infectious diseases occur in some countries suddenly ?e.g. Aids in Africa Or ?!

Question

For example the Aids, bird flu and tick borne diseases spreading esp. Africa, Asia.Is it a new biological war or ethnic - national suppressing to some countries?
Tick - borne diseases and Aids appeared both in Zaire first. Strange.

Answer 1

It has to do with the level of industrialization of countries, I think. In the US, for instance, people don't have their children pluck chickens to eat, because we have machines that do it for us. (The first and most common cases of bird flu in Asia are young boys who pluck chickens, it's this contact with the dead birds bloody body that passes the disease) If there was a virus in chickens, a)it would die on the dead bird before people bought it because it couldn't feed off the dead bird's cells, or b) it would be killed in our ultra-efficient gas stoves. We don't like to kill animals or handle their bodies in the US because our level of industrialization is such that we don't have to, so, less chance of bird flu.

In Africa, the spread of and the inception of diseases also has to do with industrialization because people tend to live closer to wild animals and to forest or jungle (We clear large swaths of land to build huge cities or suburban towns, but in smaller African towns people live nearer to wildlife). This is why sometimes diseases like AIDS or Ebola will "come out of the jungle", meaning that someone had an encounter with a wild animal who had the disease, and they spread it to others in the town. People tavelling from town to town or from towns to cities bring the diseases far, but they originate when people have encounters with wild animals.

The US is just so removed from wildlife because of our high level of industrialization that we don't often get diseases straight from animals: they have to be borne human-to-human to reach us, which I think in these cases is a good thing!

Answer 2

A biological war???? NO, the spread of insect borne diseases is because no one can spray insecticides anymore. DDT was VERY effective at wiping out mosquitoes (the #1 killer of all) and then the wacko enviromentalist said we couldn't spray it anymore. There was NO proof that it was killing the birds. And as for AIDS, it's the ignorance of the people in Africa. AIDS is spread by human contact.

Answer 3

Bird Flu has been around. Just never have struck a particular stock of birds or notably until this year. Mutated enough to effect Humans.

Aids was man made to a point. That's what happens when a man decides to have homosexual sex with a monkey. (Has been traced back to this)

I do like conspiracy theories. But I prefer the ones that actually make since!

Answer 4

Diseases (and viruses) don't choose where they mutate, it just happens based on the conditions there.

You forgot the example of the 1918 influenza epidemic, which was first detected on a military base in the US. Does this mean that the US foments disease, or military people do?

Conspiracy theories are just that - theories. Go with epidemiological facts instead.

Answer 5

its not warfare nor is it ethnic. the problem is those nations have less resources than we do--we have sanitary conditions here, good nutrition and meds and we take precautions to prevent illness. do you think that in poverty-striken africa a couple will go out of their way probably miles to get tested for AIDS or get a condom? do you think polio and such illness doesnt kill children there because they have not built up such immunities?? If we were as poor as they are then we'd have the same problem too. most of them try to survive from day to day and dont plan ahead to protect themselves from vds if they dont even kno if they will have food for their families...