globalization
...ease spreads though casual contact. Eleven laboratories in 10 countries are coordinating the effort to identify the cause of the illness. World Health Organization teams in Asia, where the cases are concentrated, are helping local health authorities manage the outbreak and collect data. Through its office in Manila, Philippines, the agency is establishing logistics bases and supply chains to ensure equipment and medicines needed for outbreak response are available. Chinese authorities have issued a summary report on an outbreak of what might be the same or a related disease that began in southern China in November and peaked in mid-February. The effects of globalization are clearly shown by this epidemic unfolding right in front of our eyes. With all the biochemical threats and the problems with Iraq this problem is putting fear into many nations. The pneumonia is spreading across the world showing how we live in a tight knitted global society. If nothing is don...