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AIDS Pandemic

Understanding how any pandemic moves over space and through time is not an easy issue to tackle, especially contrasting the movement to heat moving across a homogenous copper sheet. Ideas throughout history have evolved and grown due to the movement of people and the routes they take to come into contact with one another. Who would have known about the invention of something called the telephone without the use of a train or wagon trails or any trails at all? Without direct lines of communication and contact, no one would have known about the telephone. The same can be said about the AIDS pandemic; it cannot spread without these same direct lines. Heat diffusing over a homogenous coppers sheet almost spreads like a wild fire, gobbling up everything in its path. But it seems that that is not how the AIDS pandemic is moving. Three ideas of diffusion can explain that the AIDS pandemic is spreading due to the movement of humans and the geographic space in which they live: contagious ...

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