CAUSE AND EFFECT OF EPIDEMIC DISEASE RELATED TO COUNTRIES ECONOMIC

According to Oxford Advanced Dictionary (1994), the definition of ‘epidemic disease’, is spreading rapidly among many people in the same place for a time. In other word, an epidemic refers to a disease that spreads quickly and furiously from a person to a person, infecting more people in the region, and when an epidemic crosses states it spread globally.
Studies show that the causes of epidemic disease are varies, for example influenza infections are from fleas bites, that goes to the lymphatic system and enlarges the lymph nodes of the groin, neck or armpit. Dengue fever is cause by Aedes mosquito bite, where it transmit virus into our body and could cause a serious infection. Lack of sex education may also lead to epidemic disease such as Aids, in this condition a person who are infected, could always transmit the virus through sex. For some reasons epidemic diseases like H1N1, Cholera, Hand, Foot and Mouth could trigger because of lack of proper health care and management.
The effects of epidemic diseases are huge. The instabilities of the economy in a country is one of the major issues arise from epidemic diseases. It affects a lot on the tourism sectors which involved not only the use of public transport but also hotels business. Moreover, Investors will back out from investing their money or business and which will lead to a very poor economic growth. The affected countries will also have to spend billions of dollars on drugs or antibiotics to cure not only the diseases but also on health care support due to sexual activities. The plague of AIDS is adding a new twist to our fears. According to Shahid Athar (2006) in his research on ‘Sex education, Teenage pregnancy, Sex in Islam and marriage ’, 200,000 cases have been diagnosed with Aids in the US alone, out of which 50% have already died. The disease is growing at a rate of one case every 14 minutes and so far there is no effective treatment.
Through practising Islam, the epidemic diseases can always be prevented. This is because, the Islamic perspective on living hygienically was essential both because, it led to physical well-being, and revealed proper moral character. Hygiene as a system included not only personal hygiene related to food, clothing, exercise, cleanliness, but also sexual control. Fasting was enjoined in the Qur'an in the earliest Surahs, and certain foods were forbidden to humans, for example pork, which only lately has been elucidated to contain 'virus' which are deleterious to health, which also results in the foremost cause of H1N1. Only through action can we hope to change this thought set, because the very societal values of one country needs to be changed to address this main cause.
WRITTEN BY: NUR DIYANA BINTI MOHD ZAKRI