Major Global Health Issues Of 2021

Since 2020, our world has been facing many disastrous global issues according to health. Covid-19 is also one of them which has caused approximately 3.96 M deaths all over the world. Apart from it, some other diseases like tuberculosis, influenza, malaria and mental problems have also caused devastating issues. We must evaluate them and find some adequate reason to make them less intense. This is because there is nothing more important than our health. The information of these diseases is as follows.

1- COVID-19

COVID-19 is an infectious disease that is contagious. It can be transferred to a person when an infected person cough or sneeze because its droplets contain the germs which are the main cause of this disease. This disease was first discovered in Wuhan city, China, in December 2019. Later it was named as COVID-19. In the name COVID-19 CO means corona, VI virus, D means disease and 19 refers to the year in which it was discovered.

Symptoms

Some of its main symptoms are as under.

• Sneeze
• Dry cough
• Fever
• Aches and pains

Treatment

However, nowadays special vaccines are also designed to protect ourselves against COVID-19 whose names are as under.

• AstraZeneca vaccine
• Novavax vaccine
• Sinopharm vaccine
• Cansino vaccine
• Sputnik vaccine

These vaccines highly reduce the certainty of impending diseases and are saving the lives of many people all over the world.

2- Tuberculosis

March 24 is known as the world TB day. It is celebrated all over the world in order to create awareness among people about tuberculosis. It is a disease that mainly attacks lungs, but apart from lungs it also attacks the stomach, brain and bones. It is caused by bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When an infected person sneeze or coughs in the air, these air droplets also causes tuberculosis because this air contains germs that enter other bodies when they inhale the air, and in this way they also get infected with this disease.

Symptoms

Its symptoms can be chest pain, coughing blood, fever, tiredness and eating less.

Treatment

It can be treated by a blood test, and apart from the blood test, there are several drugs which are used to treat TB.

• Isoniazid
• Ethambutol
• Rifampin
• Pyrazinamide

3- Influenza

Influenza or flu is the most viral disease nowadays and is highly contagious. It mainly attacks the throat and nose. It spreads due to direct contact like talking, coughing and sneezing.

Symptoms

People with the flu also have high fever, headache, muscle aches, sore throat and sneezing.

Treatment

For treatment purposes, doctors prescribe rest, but if the flu is severe, then the doctor prescribes us painkillers and some other drugs.

4- Malaria

It is a disease that is caused by a parasite which then transmits it into mosquitos and mosquitos bite humans. It is mainly transmitted by a female anopheles mosquito which has been previously infected. The word malaria has been derived from two Italian words ‘Mala’ meaning bad and ‘Aria’ meaning air. Early scientists performed many experiments to prove that it is mainly caused by marshes, but at last it was proved that plasmodium is the main cause of malaria.

Symptoms

A person with malaria will have the following symptoms.

• High fever
• Headache
• Vomiting
• Muscles ache
• Shivering

5- Mental Health

Mental health is our emotional and psychological condition. Nowadays, due to the pandemic everyone’s mental health has been affected profoundly. It not only affects a person’s mind but also his entire life, including his relations, his career and his behaviour.

Signs of mental issues

Usually a person whose mental health is affected has the following issues.

• Depression
• Headache
• Fighting with people
• Yelling at people
• Hearing voices that are untrue
• Having a mind full of thoughts and a person could not get out of it
• Thinking about harming oneself
• Addiction of drugs more than before
• Anger
• Stress

Conclusion

Here is the information of the top five diseases that have affected our world profoundly with its symptoms and treatment. I hope you would enjoy reading them.

Thank you for reading.