Since communicable disease caused a relatively few deaths in

Since communicable disease caused a relatively few deaths in the U.S. in 2015, why should public and public health professionals be concerned about them anymore and devote resources in their prevention and control?

Solution

The task of public health professionals is to prevent any disease outbreak in future. If these people stop devoting resources to communicable diseases, then disease may restart their work of spreading. This is because most communicable diseases are food-borne. And changes in food are occurring all around the globe. If public health professionals will ignore this part, then certain pathogens may move in to the population unknowingly.

It is important to note that if a pathogen enters the population, then it will become a outbreak immediately in the US. This is because of decreasing immunity due to increasing health, hygiene and life expectancy. The people are more susceptible to pathogenic attack.

A pathogenic attack can be air-borne, water-borne or sexually transmitted also. Any type of attack will soon become an outburst over there. Therefore, public health professionals need to be extremely vigilant and devote more resources than their counter part countries on prevention and control.