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What are the causes of the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases?

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Many factors: There are many factors, some are 1 peoples resistant to get their children and themselves immunized due to ignorance 2 international travel which brings infectious disease from under developed countries to others 3 new unexpected disease like h1n1 4 over use of antibiotics causing resistant organisms.

Answered 12/14/2016

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