“Over the pastfew decadesthedisease has spread dramatically,” saysdaSilva, notingin particular the toll it has taken on the urban poor living in the shantytowns of AsiaandLatin America.
"Malaria and dengue fever are two of the mosquito-borne diseases most likely to spreaddramatically as global temperatures head upward, " said the Harvard Medical School's Paul Epstein in Scientific American in 2000, in a warning typical of many.
When, nine months after diagnosis, Jobs finally abandoned alternative treatment and agreed to surgery, his cancer had spread to the liver, dramatically reducing his survival chances.
Even though it only prevents six out of 10 people who would have gotten the flu from getting sick, it still dramatically slows the spread of the virus and drops your chances of getting ill.