In the 1960s, doctors in the United States predicted that infectious diseases would be in decline. American surgeon Dr. William H. Stewart told the nation that he had already seen most of the frontiers in the field of contagious diseases. Epidemiology seemed destined to become a scientific backwater (Karlen 1995, 3). Although people thought that this particular field was gradually dying, this was not the case. Much more was destined to come. By the late 1980s, it became clear that people's initial belief regarding the decline of infectious diseases needed to be qualified, as a variety of new diseases emerged to infect humans (Smallman & Brown, 2011). With current trends, the epidemics and pandemics we are experiencing have created a very chaotic and unreliable future for humanity. To date, it has been really difficult to prevent global epidemics and pandemics. Although cases may be different from one state to another, the challenges we all face are all interconnected in this globalized world. There are multiple reasons for their resurgence. People's health is linked to several direct aspects such as the use of food, practices, medical care and indirect aspects such as monetary costs, communication, international law, security, international relations etc. It is also important to know that these synthesize each other. Food and business can be taken as an example. Today, as some of the largest multinational corporations are heavily involved in the creation and marketing of unhealthy foods, the challenge to control diseases that cause epidemics or pandemics has been quite daunting (Chopra, Galbraith, & Darnton, 2002). With changes in diet, particularly with the increase in people suffering from processed food diabetes, the rates of people having… half of paper… University of North Carolina Press.Karlen, A.1995. The progress of the plague: a social history of man and disease. London: Victor GollanczZimmet, P., K.G. Alberti and J. Shaw.2001. Global and social implications of the diabetes epidemic. Nature 414 (13 December): 782-86Wines, M. 2007. Virulent tuberculosis in South Africa may endanger millions of people. New York time. January 8. Accessed online at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/world/africa/28tuberculosis.html?pagewanted=allBeyrer, C.1998. War in Blood: Sex, Politics, and AIDS in Southeast Asia. New York: Zed Books, Ltd.Alchon, S.A. 2003. A parasite in the earth: New World epidemics in global perspective. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.Murray, M.2006. The epidemiology of SARS. In SARS in China: Prelude to the Pandemic?, ed. A. Kleinman and J. Watson, 17-30. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.