Throughout time, scientists have discovered new ways to help save lives and help people live longer, but this causes a major problem around the world. Birth rates are almost double to that of the death rates, and the earth’s population is reaching the seven billion mark. Continents everywhere worry about what is to come with the rising population because it is causes many resources to deplete and diseases to spread. These very problems are already occurring on the continent of Africa.. In Africa, overpopulation is causing an immense amount of disease to spread more competently due to the close living quarters and a lack of clean water. Population around the world is rising hastily, so fast that the world’s population has just reached …show more content…
Sleeping sickness is a disease carried by a parasite, Trypanosoma, that bites and infects cattle. It then spreads to people when a fly that bit the cattle that was infected, bites the people moving the cattle around (Hays 358). Realizing that the disease is transmitted through insects helped doctors to see how malaria and yellow fever also spread so quickly this helped them see that overpopulation was such a great issue because it enhances the spread of these diseases because more people in one area allows insects to infect more people in a less amount of time. Symptoms of sleeping sickness include common effects to those of common colds and flus (Hays 358). Because the sleeping sickness is so similar to a common flu many people would go on with their normal daily activities, around other people. In the case of overpopulation worldwide, this can help doctors around the world see that other diseases with unknown causes can possibly be spread through parasites because it may show specific signs that a parasite started it, but was transferred through insects. Diseases in Africa, like African trypanosomiasis, often have very similar signs to a common illnesses, so most of the time the victims will not be genuinely worried about it and live their lives around the people of there town, but because of overpopulation the number of people they are around is greatly increased
Population Growth is an issue that exists in today’s world that needs to be confronted before it becomes out of hand. The population itself has reached overwhelming numbers making it a problem that could turn to be dangerous. The amount of humans that the earth can support or the carrying capacity is slowly rising but at a much slower rate than the population growth rate. The increasing growth rate has its negative effects environmentally, agriculturally, socially, and economically and also has its positive effects nationally, and economically. The government is brainstorming and trying to come up with ways to decrease
The world population of 7.2 billion in mid-2013 is projected to increase by almost one billion people within the next twelve years. It is projected to reach 8.1 billion in 2025, and to further increase to 9.6 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100. This assumes a decline of fertility for countries where large families are still prevalent as well as a slight increase of fertility in several countries with fewer than two children per woman on average.
At least 10,345,002 people have been affected by typhus. Poor families were affected more by the disease than
The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.
In 1999 the world population reached six billion. Roughly 200,000 lives have been added each day since then, about one small city a week. This population boom however, is not evenly distributed throughout the globe. In fact, many countries in Europe have experienced negative population growth in the last ten years. It is the developing nations of our world that are most responsible for the exponential increase the world has begun to experience. The busy-bodied human mind has rushed and hurried to find "tech-fix's" to sustain our ever growing population. The population should have hit a glass ceiling a few billion people ago, many argue that it has explaining the 1-2 billion people dying of
It is a widely known fact that the population of the world increases by a great factor every year. However, not many people know what exactly is causing this upsurge. In the past century, the population has radically grown. The main things increasing the world’s population are medical care and infant mortality rates because both have changed drastically over the past century.
There were a huge number of diseases in the mid nineteenth century due to the unsanitary living conditions and the lack of proper medical equipment. The diseases were very hazardous. They wiped out a huge population during this time period.
While it may be observed that the exponential rate of growth is slowing, the world population is still growing rapidly. Perhaps the biggest concern is not the actual population increase but the distribution of the growth (Wilson, Population).
Africa gets its climate from the way the low and high pressure zones bring in rain from the atlantic and how when the low and high pressure areas switch rain isn’t brought in. creating the dry season in africa. In India their wet and dry seasons are caused by the monsoons that switch the high and low pressure zones that either force air that carries rain into india or an movement of high pressure air out of india during the dry season.
Poor infrastructure in African countries has exacerbated the problem as well, as hospitals are too ill-equipped and ill-staffed to deal with these sorts of outbreaks. Some hospitals have even been unable to contain its patients, with infected individuals wandering away from the medical facilities or crawling out into the streets to die.
As stated earlier the human population is growing at an alarming rate. This rate has effect many biotic and abiotic factors including human interactions with disease. As our population increase, resources dwindle and migration is at times necessary for an individual to sruve. This migration though raises the risk of transmission of certain disease such as Malaria into countries that have never been exposed to the disease (Martens & Hall 2000). Another study found that our size is greatly effecting conservation efforts in West Africa (Brashares et al. 2001). While our population is increasing, eventually we will hit a carrying capacity or even worse. Human demographics are going to be a major field and possibly an area of concern as we go into the first half of the 21st
The symptoms of HAT in the beginning tend to be milder, consisting of nausea and fever. The disease is commonly referred to as “sleeping sickness”. It obtained this name from people observing individuals in a certain stage of the disease. There are two main stages of HAT caused by two different geniuses of tsetse flies. These two stages both have hemolymphatic and acute disease stages. However, one of the two forms an acute stage that is drastically more severe than the other. In this drastically different acute stage, the infected individual becomes almost “zombie-like” and can experience psychotic episodes that occasionally involve violence. These episodes of an individual experiencing the acute stage gave the disease the nickname of “sleeping sickness”. Some cultures have deemed the disease as a result of demonic spirits and thus those infected can often be ignored because people are afraid of interacting with a bad spirit.
The world population is growing at an extremely fast rate due to innovation in a variety of fields like health and medical research and
African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as African Sleeping sickness; is an infectious disease transmitted by the tsetse fly in rural parts of the African continent. Eventually, if left untreated, the disease will lead to death often within months. The disease causes suffering for humans and animals that humans rely on, leading to poor nations and little effort to eradicate the disease.
One of the leading causes of poverty in developing countries is the overpopulation. A common issue associated with overpopulation is insufficient resources because of the increasingly large demand for food, clean water that causes malnutrition, depletion of the natural environment, and deterioration in living conditions. According to Pimentel (2012, p. 151), shortages of agricultural land, clean water lead to the narrow of present food production. These lacks are increasing along with the population growth. The nutrition shortage is most serious in Africa and Asia where population increases highest, with 780 million people were undernourished. Furthermore, overpopulation causes the majority of the poor does not have access to the health system to prevent various diseases of poverty such as AIDS,