Comparing the response to cholera in Zimbabwe with SARS response in Toronto – Public health systems in crisis

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04/29/2009

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Table of Contents Comparing the response to cholera in Zimbabwe with SARS response in Toronto – Public health systems  in crisis Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The response to cholera, as opposed to SARS
  3. Dugger's report
  4. Cholera's eradication and controllability
  5. Drug-resistant strains of cholera
  6. The SARS epidemic in Toronto in 2003
  7. Recent UNICEF report on conditions in Zimbabwe
  8. Conclusion
  9. References

Abstract

This is an article about two diseases: cholera and sars. Pandemics today potentially can spread from one part of the globe to another. The spread of sars from Hong Kong where it was first identified and isolated, to toronto (which was particularly hard hit), in part has to do with the new realities of migration and visiting patterns, part of the globalization process. (Lewison, 2008) As well as Rankin (2007) and other note, sars revealed gaps in preparedness for dealing with a major pandemic in the high-tech industrialized West. Many serious epidemic diseases like cholera seem to be centred in developing nations, where conditions of sanitation, health care and education about hygiene, as well as technologies and infrastructure such as clean water for the majority of people, are not as comprehensive as they are in developed nations like Canada.However, response to cholera, as opposed to sars, does not lead to public calls for shutting down borders or limiting trade with infected areas, which is what, happened to toronto during the sars outbreak. (Lewison, 2008) In part, this is because of the fact that much less was known about sars transmission, etiology, and prognosis, than is known of cholera. By late 2003, as Lewiston notes the panic over sars was lessened as scientific papers were published in large numbers revealing the make up of the virus, in the coronavirus family, and the treatment protocol to contain it. (Lewiston: 246) But during the actual crisis front line workers, such as nurses, pharmacists, and doctors had to deal with a huge panic over lack of understanding of the extent of the virus's possible or potential spread. One question to be answered is how do countries prepare better to deal with future epidemics based on what occurred in this situation in toronto?

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