The Rx for survival (2005) series aim to increase awareness of the day-to-day global health issues people encounter in different parts of the world. The episodes addressed viruses such as, cholera, river blindness, AIDS, tuberculosis smallpox, and obesity. Although, the film renders a portion of the program for the diseases that are affecting people in developed …show more content…
Due to the rapid growth of technology, which has facilitated the way people travel around the world, this has allowed for the rapid spread disease. Although global trade has its benefit, and has provided an income for families and health care affordability this has also increased the spread of disease with the exporting of agricultural products that occasionally come in contact with an infected animal, hence carrying disease to different parts of the world. Other areas of globalization are the pollutants that have forever changed our biology and ecology. These changes increase our susceptibility to disease, and the changes in the environments affect the migration of animals, that may carry