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The effect is the other way around; diseases like aids, malaria, polio were/are the scourges of the third world, because the poor do not have the means to treat
by Sacho 9y ago
The effect is the other way around; diseases like aids, malaria, polio were/are the scourges of the third world, because the poor do not have the means to treat them; the viruses/bacteria in the third world suffer low evolutionary pressure because the humans only fight back with their immune systems. In the first world, we grow super resistant bacteria due to evolutionary pressure from our modern medical treatment. It's the first world that we should fear from a "shared biology" standpoint.
- polotics 9y agoAre you sure? Once in Dehli asking for coLd medicines the pharmacy salesman made me a very cheap and very wrong mix of very few antibiotics tabs. Resistant TB is also 3rd-world originated, right? Hep-A in southern Cali is another poor man infects rich man story.
- rbanffy 9y agoOTOH, populations that develop imune systems that can deal with their diseases will host deadly stuff for those who rely on external defenses.