What Will We Take For Granted Tomorrow?

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What Will We Take For Granted Tomorrow?

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Scott-144766 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4333 More actions · Answer 1

In some parts of the world it's even becoming a greater problem than historically, because of strains of drug-resistant forms that are starting to appear.

And when you combine TB with HIV you get a very unpleasant situation. Just goes to show we shouldn't confuse "It's a thing of the past" with "It's a thing of the past round here".

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Scott-144766 (6/8/2010)
In some parts of the world it's even becoming a greater problem than historically, because of strains of drug-resistant forms that are starting to appear.
And when you combine TB with HIV you get a very unpleasant situation. Just goes to show we shouldn't confuse "It's a thing of the past" with "It's a thing of the past round here".

Indeed. Toss poverty and government corruption into the mixture and it becomes one hell of a mess. Locally, if statistics are to be believed (and around here these kind of stats are well below reality), there's over half a million people living with active TB.

How many of these are considered (in the first world countries) to be things of the past?

Malaria

Cholera

Polio

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (6/8/2010)
Scott-144766 (6/7/2010)
Sadly, tuberculosis isn't a thing of the past like smallpox. It infects a third of the world's population and kills over a million people a year.
In some parts of the world it's even becoming a greater problem than historically, because of strains of drug-resistant forms that are starting to appear.

The East End of London, UK sports one such population.

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WayneS (6/7/2010)
Thought-provoking. Very nice... as are the replies.

Same sentiment.

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31163 More actions · Answer 5

Very interesting editorial and comments!

This actually plays right into something I'm doing now. In addition to my full-time IT job, I also teach part-time at a small business school. This module (my school's equivalent of a semester), I'm teaching a class called "Office Information and Management Systems." One of the big topics of discussion is how technology has changed the workplace. I've discussed with my class how the office has changed, and how technology has affected that change -- going from typewriters, file cabinets, and switchboard operators to email, databases, and automated phone systems. Talk about a paradigm shift.

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