{"title":"Nalezljive bolezni sodobnega časa","authors":"Zoran Simonović","doi":"10.18690/978-961-286-478-1.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Infectious diseases have shaped human history, and they still represent significant public health risks nowadays. As new infectious disease agents emerge, old microbes are evolving and acquiring the possibility for more effective human transmission. Some of them become resistant to medicines and spread to new geographical areas. Sometimes public health measures are implemented suboptimally, which makes spreading easier among the human population. The spread of contagious diseases is facilitated by changes in living conditions, mass gatherings, urbanization, growing international trade, and traveling. The most important infectious diseases, which we have encountered in modern times and were or are still representing global public health threats and public health burden, are malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, influenza, infectious diarrhea, Ebola, MERS, SARS, measles, Zika, West Nile fever, Covid-19 and others. In this article, we describe some epidemiological characteristics of some of these infectious diseases.","PeriodicalId":220685,"journal":{"name":"Medicina, pravo in družba: sodobne dileme IV","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medicina, pravo in družba: sodobne dileme IV","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-478-1.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Infectious diseases have shaped human history, and they still represent significant public health risks nowadays. As new infectious disease agents emerge, old microbes are evolving and acquiring the possibility for more effective human transmission. Some of them become resistant to medicines and spread to new geographical areas. Sometimes public health measures are implemented suboptimally, which makes spreading easier among the human population. The spread of contagious diseases is facilitated by changes in living conditions, mass gatherings, urbanization, growing international trade, and traveling. The most important infectious diseases, which we have encountered in modern times and were or are still representing global public health threats and public health burden, are malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, influenza, infectious diarrhea, Ebola, MERS, SARS, measles, Zika, West Nile fever, Covid-19 and others. In this article, we describe some epidemiological characteristics of some of these infectious diseases.