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Does the government do enough to secure our health? Health and disease.
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When I speak of disease for this thread, I speak of communicable disease in particular - a disease that can be transmitted from one person to another. Examples include TB, Malaria, HIV, Measles -to name just a few.
Do the government do enough to prevent us from catching disease?
Take TB for example. A disease on a steady increase year on year. A disease that GPs often fail to diagnose due to early symptoms resembling that of a strong flu virus.
Do you ever worry? Do you know anyone who has been affected? Do you believe the government does what they can, or that they could improve in certain aspects of disease control?
Do the government do enough to prevent us from catching disease?
Take TB for example. A disease on a steady increase year on year. A disease that GPs often fail to diagnose due to early symptoms resembling that of a strong flu virus.
Do you ever worry? Do you know anyone who has been affected? Do you believe the government does what they can, or that they could improve in certain aspects of disease control?
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As I work in the NHS and know what we do in cases of an outbreak, I'm wondering if you have any ideas what else we could be doing?
I work in HE, and when there have been threats we have been consistently well-briefed by the hospitals trust and the Primary Care Trust on how to handle a pandemic. I was actually really impressed at how quickly people reacted to threat, even though in both cases I'm thinking of (bird 'flu and swine 'flu) it came to naught.
fine people who don't catch it, bin it, kill it.
Yes, but this doesn't last a lifetime. It lasts up until adolescence and then it wears off. That's why the immunisation programme was pulled for schoolchildren.
It;s not necessarily what doctors and nurses do, but how the government handles the data they receive and act on it.
Again, what do *you* mean by that and how do you think we could do better. You'd be surprised at the amount of information and how we use it already...