id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-310509-c8wp2m69 Morens, David M. Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability 2013-07-04 .txt text/plain 2121 98 40 The most salient modern example of an emerging infectious disease is HIV/AIDS, which likely emerged a century ago after multiple independent events in which the virus jumped from one primate host to another (chimpanzees to humans) and subsequently, as a result of a complex array of social and demographic factors, spread readily within the human population. It was soon apparent, however, that the disease was not restricted to these groups, and indeed, the bulk of HIV infections globally has resulted from heterosexual transmission that has been heavily weighted within the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa where a number of factors were responsible for this rapid spread; chief among these were human movement along truck routes accompanied by a high level of commercial sex work, inadequate public health infrastructures, poverty, and social inequality. ./cache/cord-310509-c8wp2m69.txt ./txt/cord-310509-c8wp2m69.txt