Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache.…
Scarlet Fever is an infectious bacterial disease affecting mostly children, and causing fever and a rash. It is caused by streptococci. Scarlet fever is one of those diseases that put fear into everyone's eyes when they heard someone around them had contracted it. The scarlet fever was first discovered in the 1600s by an english physician and researcher named Thomas Sydenham. Thomas had many other contributions like the treatment of smallpox.…
I do not recommend looking up some of this stuff on Google. To start, the American doctors removed ten ounces of blood from their patients with yellow fever every day. They would also make you consume medicine that would cause you to perspire like the sweatiest person in the world. Also, you had to bathe your extremities in vinegar. If that isn’t bad enough, patients then had to take a microscopic Spanish beetle and polish it on your skin until it evoked a blister like never before.…
Smallpox Smallpox is/was the most serious threat to human health throughout the world. The point of this paper is to educate and inform the reader facts and information about Small Pox. Smallpox is a contagious disease that is caused by the Variola virus. Smallpox is transmitted through person to person by face to face contact, direct contact with contaminated fluids and objects, and rarely, through the air. (NIH.)…
It ravaged through the streets of London. There are three types of Typhus, louse borne typhus, Murine Typhus, and Scrub Typhus. “It would take just one minor cut or sore for the typhus infected feces to enter the victim’s bloodstream, and soon high fever, delirium, and gangrenous sores would develop.” (Mabillard pg 1) Each different type is spread by bad hygiene, rats and fleas, or mites.…
An Epidemic Unsolved It is often argued that one is a product of their environment. In other words, as theorized by Milanovic, it is geography, not genealogy, that is the primary indicator of socioeconomic status. Globally, certain patterns can be recognized of where there is a higher gap in income inequality. Subsequently, the same can be derived within the United States, which is often overlooked as an income unequal country, though income inequality between the rich and the poor is substantial. This can be highlighted most in certain states across the southern United States, as well as the region known as Appalachia towards the eastern United States.…
In 1906 Mary Mallon was employed as a cook for a wealthy banker that resided in New York. Six out of 11 residents in the banker’s household developed typhoid fever. As a result of this, a sanitary engineer known as George Sober, quickly questioned the ill group of people, including Mary Mallon who had exhibited a less intense form of the disease. Mr. Sober first concluded that the infection was the result from freshwater clams; however, Mary Mallon was the host for the bacteria. She continued to infect everything she came in contact with.…
The Cricetulus griseus, typically known as the Chinese hamster, hails from the northern deserts of China and Mongolia. They burrow down into the earth, where they stay sheltered from the desserts fluctuating temperatures. From the steppes of Eastern and Central Asia comes the Campbell’s Dwarf hamster. This breed of hamster can burrow underground as far as three feet. Their burrows are usually lined with dry grasses and stay a constant 62° Fahrenheit year round.…
Influenza Influenza, also known as the flu is an airborne pathogen that has a high morbidity and mortality rate. Influenza can be spread through the air or by contact, and maybe infectious before symptoms occur. Symptoms of the flu may vary, and severity differs between age groups. People who are at high risk include younger adults with strong immune systems, the elderly, and people with previous problems such as asthma. Symptoms may include: sore throat, fever, muscle pain, and weakness.…
Dear, Mom and Dad In history class we learn about the dangers of the plague. Millions of people in the 13 century died from the plague. Back then everyone feared to plague.…
Elizabeth Reyes A&P January 11th, 2018 Influenza Influenza, also known as the flu, was discovered in 1918. A vet named J.S Koen was observing a disease in pigs which was believed to be the same as the flu today. In 1918, the flu pandemic broke out. It lasted for about a year, killing 20-50 million people.…
727 words Influenza nfluenza is also called the flu but it is not your common flu it is a highly contagious viral ere illness and can also cause infection the viral infection influenza can kill. The flu causes life threatening complications including pneumonia. The flu is spread by direct contact with a person with the infection and a person without. The estimated amount of deaths that influenza assist with is around three thousand in just Australia.…
Influenza Influenza is a respiratory sickness that is caused by a virus that can lead a variety of illnesses. Countless solutions are available, but not all of them work. According to Newsela, although people receive flu shots and antiviral drugs, and avoided people with Influenza, the virus always beat their defences. Constantly mutating making a new vaccine every year, scientists are trying to determine what remains the same in flu strains every year. The first and most effective way to avoid Influenza is getting a annual flu vaccine.…
There’s a long history of smallpox since it has been around for thousands of years. The European settlers first brought smallpox to North America in the 1600s. In 1633-1634, the disease swept through the Northeast, wiping out entire Native American tribes. Native populations in New England are thought to have plummeted by over 70 percent due to this outbreak (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, 2012). Smallpox is spread when a person breathes it in and out.…
Fever 1793, a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson, takes place in the city of Philadelphia during the year 1793 as an epidemic races through the area. Fourteen year-old Mattie Cook is caught right in the middle of it and has to struggle to survive as fever and panic take over the city. This disease causes many changes and challenges in her life that she must overcome. By using certain instances of description and inner thoughts, Anderson effectively develops the theme that saying goodbye can be one of the hardest things in the world to do.…