GLOBAL ISSUES

Blog 4-News Article about Global Infectious Diseases

Global Infectious Diseases News Article:

-Developments on Swine Flu Worlwide-The Associated Press

-Swine Flu catching up on the weak world economy-The Associated Press

This 1st News Article talks about the recent development Swine Flu has made on the world. It gives the important details of how Swine Flu is now affecting the world, and its people. Scientists in this article are predicting that if these patterns of number grow at the same rate, Swine Flu can go from epidemic outbreak to pandemic outbreak.

According to April 28th, 2009:

• Deaths: 152(Mexico)




• Sickened: 50 in America, 6 in Canada, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Spain, 1 in Israel, 11 in New Zealand, and 1,995 in Mexico have pneumonia, but Swine flu not conmfired.




• Schools closing worldwide, Britain, United States, and Mexico.




• Mexico suspends all schools until May 6th. Surgical Masks given to public, and World Bank loans Mexico over $200 million dollars.




• WHO(World Health Organiztion) raises the alert level to Phase 4 of 6. Disease spreads easily, can become pandemic, but not easily. Some countries ban pork import, and airports screen travellers from Mexico and Americ.a




• World Stock Markets as investors worry that outbreak could derail economic recovery.

The 2nd News Article talks about how the recent outbreak of the new Swine Flu affecting the economy. The main idea of this article is about the recent pandemic activity of Swine Flu, and how it threatens new storms for the global economy, especially since the crisis just now seemed to settling down.

April 28th, 2009:

Recent news news tells us that the Swine Flu outbreak has unleashed a side effect that threatens the global economy in a very dangerous way.

China, Russia, and South Korea have banned imports of North American Pork, even after assurances that the disease cannot be spread through the meat. Investors had just started to pick themselves up, are now blown down again.

So far, fear of the flu is responible for the economic disruption and the disease itself. In Mexico City the Government has closed down many public places such as movie theaters, night clubs, museums, and other places where publicity can gather."That was a 36% drop in the revenue generated by tourism and services in Mexico city" says Arturo Mendicuti.

Blog 3- 12 Global Issues

1(Global Warming)- "an  increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes"- www.dictionary.com
2(Biodiversity & Ecosystem Losses)- "The preservation of biodiversity is considered by environmentalists to be a major goal of environmental policy" - www.dictionary.com

3(Fisheries Depletion)

- Depletion of fishes by many different causes such as; fish poachers, Global Warming, Pollution in the water, and water poi

soning.

4(Deforestation)

-"to divest or

 clear forests or trees:Deforestation is considered to be a main contributor to

 the greenhouse effect."-Dictionary.com

5(Water Deficits/Crisis)-Water crisis is a term that has been used by some to refer to the world’s water resources relative to human demand. The t

erm has been applied to the worldwide water situation by the United Nations and other world organizations.^[1][2] The major aspects of the water crisis are allegedly overall scarcit

y of usable water^[3] and water pollution.

6(Water/Ocean Pollution)-Point sources of water pollution are

 stationary locations such as sewage treatment plants, factories and ships. Non-point sou

rces are more diffuse and include agricultural runoff, mining activities

 and paved roads.-U.S.A Agency of Environmental Protection

7(Poverty)-the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable a-

mount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations.-Dictionary.com and Poverty.com

8(Peackeeping)-he maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area. The activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)-Dictionary.com

9(Education)-Education for All specialise in providing educational reso

urces to schools and educational projects, in developing countries, to compliment and support the work carried out by Government education ministries and emergency relief and development charities.-http://www.educationforall.com/about-us.html

10(Global Infectious Diseases)-Infections are prevalent in developing countries, where co-infection is common. The adverse impact of infectious diseases is most severe among the poorest people, who have the fewest material, physical and financial resources to draw from and limited or no access to integrated health care, prevention tools and medications. Infectious diseases raise awareness of our global vulnerability, the need for strong health care systems and the potentially broad and borderless impact of disease.-http://www.globalhealth.org/infectious_diseases/

11(Digital Divide)- Technology - even in small amounts- is helping developing nations and communities overcome tradition totake leaps forward. The digital divide is most commonly defined as the gap between those individuals and communities that have, and do not have, access to the information technologies that are transforming our lives.-http://www.edutopia.org/digital-divide-where-we-are-today

12(Natural Disasters)- Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, electrical storms. These are merely a few of the beautiful yet destructive natural disasters that plague our lives. People marvel at these incredible feats but, to many, how they function remains a mystery.- http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00758/en/home.html 

Blog 2-Global Issues

Topic: Global Warming

WEBSITE: FACEBOOK.COM>>>>>>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20009925629

Information:

"Global warming is real and it's affecting earth and everything in it, that includes each and everyone of us! Please help to raise awareness. Get people to understand what global warming is, what's causing it and to learn what little things everyone can do easily on a daily basis to help stop global warming."--Jason Chen

"Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface. This rising in temperature obviously give us hotter weather, strange weather pattern, melts the ice at north pole that decreases the living habitat for animals such as polar bear, increases the sea level and causes many island and shorelines to decrease in size, and also affects the growing of crops for consumption. There are many causes to this temperature rise, and big part of it is resulted from human activities. Things such as electricity that we use require burning of the fossil fuel and produces heat and CO2. Too much of this that earth can not "handle" result in this temperature increase. So some simple things we can do is to decrease in electricity usage. You can use energy-saving light bulbs, turn off lights when they are not needed, use a fan instead of air conditioner in warm weather,... etc. Cars are also another big pollutant so cut down on driving, car pool, take public transportation, ride bicycle or simply just walking whenever possible would help. Everything we use in our lives require resources to create and produce heat and CO2, so make sure they are not wasted, try to reuse or recycle. This is just some basics about global warming, to read more, check out the links in the "Posted Items" section or discuss them in the discussion board! If you have any good links, feel free to post them up for others to read.

Let's all be responsible earthlings and help preserve this great planet we live on for ourselves and our children! Take action now!


Special thanks to the following app for linking to this group.http://apps.facebook.com/billionbillion/"--Jason Chen

Questions & Answers:

1)- The Internet is a great resource for information of all kinds, and it can help us to great extent to find out information about Global Warming. Since Global Warming is a worlwide issue, many people all over the world are involved in trying to solve it. That's why there are so many internet websites, blogs, articles, and feeds for Global Warming. And thanks to these Internet resources we are able to make changes, and we are able to make a difference in our world. We can set up blogs and feeds that help alert people that our world is at risk and may be in danger. Social Networking sites like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace allow people to hold discussions with people worldwide.It also lets us discuss with people over what's wrong and right about how to help, and in what ways can we help. We can also hold special events such as fundraisers, fundraiser dinners, and festivals that donate all money towards Global Warming Research, or other topics. We can post these events over the internet, send invitations by e-mail, and many more other internet resources.

2)- Many new internet resources such as the many Web 2.0 tools that are releasing newly by the day can help us support our online publications and posts. Such tools are widgets, and they are commonly found throughout the internet. Widgets can help us support many online publications, and are really nifty. Another good tool is the "embed code", which helps us emebed many things such as tools, videos, and pictures. The "embed code" enables us to support much of our online publications and posts. And that's how these internet resources can help us out in online publications, and posts.

3)- We already know that the Internet is an amazing resource, and we all can use to the benefit for all of mankind. We can use the internet access to help each other across the internet. We can all help the community by holding special events as mentioned above. We can also hold discussions and group events that could help the community, and that could benefit the community in some way, for example a community park cleanup. So you can hold the event over the internet, and invite the many members of your community to come and help out.

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