1. I could do an article on the HIV/AIDS virus that has become a worldwide epidemic that is deadly and has affected millions of people and numerous governments. The biological element would be explaining how the virus works. The humanities aspect would be the global concerns of a disease that we cannot cure, one that destroys our bodies' defenses. The mathematical aspect would talk about the statistics and exponential rise of deaths and people infected with HIV/AIDS in relation to countries, continents, and lifestyles.
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3. Viruses inject their genetic information into their host's cells, telling those cells to make more viruses instead (or in addition to) their normal functions. The AIDS virus is so devastating because it lowers our body's defenses in the immune system and is unaffected by the protein our body makes to prevent that sort of attack. In addition, it has spread worldwide as a sexually transmitted disease and contamination through blood.
4. Globalization has created epidemic after epidemic, whether it was the bubonic plague from Genoese and Venetian merchants in Europe, or Spanish conquistadores in the Americas, the spread of Western civilization throughout the world and global interconnectedness has made old diseases close to obsolete and new, deadlier ones much more affective and devastating in range and trauma. HIV/AIDS is a modern example of how globalization has allowed the virus to spread from the jungles of Africa to the Carribean to every inhabited continent.
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