![]() ![]() ![]() In July 2015, scientists began testing an Ebola vaccine that has thus far proved extremely effective in combating the virus. Cases were also reported in countries such as the UK, Italy, and the US, and the spread of Ebola to these nations was undoubtedly the effect of globalization. In 2014 the Ebola epidemic that Preston prophecies in his book came to pass, infecting over 28,000 people in West Africa and killing over 11,000. Recent events, however, have made The Hot Zone’s discussion of Ebola even more relevant. ![]() The most notable of these is HIV/AIDS, which came to prominence in the 1980s and has since claimed about 39 million lives. With globalization also came the rise of worldwide epidemics. The word “globalization” became widely used in the 1980s, meaning essentially, the process by which the world has become increasingly interconnected-first by railroads and steamships, and now by planes and the Internet. ![]()
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