The alarming spread of viral infections has been the concern of the millennial generation. Aside from global warming and terrorism, viral infection imposes an incalculable threat to the lives of people as it affects human health.
Since the days of old, humans have never been liberated from viral infections. People of the times can only endure illnesses borne out of the changes taking place in the biosphere. Except for the HIV, medical science made successful breakthroughs to prevent and provide cure to some of them.
Elsewhere are new breeds of viral infection brings in heightened strains which are proven to be more dangerous than their predecessors. First, their cure is yet to be discovered.
Due to their fatal effects on human lives, considered as most feared among them are: the Ebola virus, the rodent-transmitted Lassa virus, the bird flu from infected poultry. In the tropical region high mortality rate was recorded due to Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness. Quite recently another mosquito-carried disease has entered the Philippines, the Zika virus.
Beset with the health and life threatening scenario, everyone must therefore take the necessary precaution to help address the global concern on the spread of viral infections. Rather than expecting for immediate solutions, it is better that we do our part even with the littlest we can do in the form of advocacies.
We have to help in the conservation and preservation of nature where the air we breathe, we polluted ourselves. We need to take care of our natural water resources before the world’s industry contaminates them all. of intoxicating them. We have to find ways in producing natural crops which are safer for human consumption in exchange for commercialism.
As we are in the midst of these life-threatening viral threats, we have to look after one another not because it is a requirement to fulfill but for us to take address it as a necessary need to overcome them. Hence, it is our duty as humans to keep our habitat clean from the wastes we ourselves have long neglected that might have triggered these viral infections and the next to come.
By: ROSITA P. NAVARRO | Teacher III | Bataan National High School | Balanga, Bataan
