1918 flu pandemic

“Urbanisation is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities.” – Li Keqiang, Premier of People’s Republic of China (Independent, 2012) In nineteenth century, England has faced an enormous and rapid growth of urban population. In-migrants, people from rural areas of England and Wales, were moving to larger, industrial cities, such as London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. In one century, the population of London, for example, increased from…

When people hear the hear the words Middle Ages they usually think of knights in shining armor, nobles, kings and queens. But if you ask a historian they would say death, disease, poverty, unfairness, unsanitary, unexpected in the medical field. So something like the Black death could easily slaughter anyone who caught it. The Black Death didn't care what class they were if they caught it, it would mean certain death. The Black Death the worst epidemic of the Middle Ages the most mind boggling…

Norman F, Cantor is Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. Cantor sections his book to explain to his readers the effects of the plague that caused so much destruction. The Black Death was a pandemic that occurred in the 1300s and left civilizations destroyed from the massive amount of people it killed. Cantor explains that there will most likely always be a degree of uncertainty about the plague because of the limitations from the medical…

Typhoid fever in itself is not a disease well known by history. Typhoid fever played only a small part in the history of the human race and compared to other diseases comes across as more of a nuisance with exception to its role in the Plague of Athens. On the surface, “enteric fever” causes a small but common array of symptoms: fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, chills, muscle aches and skin rash. The cause of the disease is salmonella typhi, a bacterium that rides contaminated…

Zombies have overtaken the media world. They have consumed the film and television industry. They continue to grow as viewers are attracted and can relate to how zombies represent our reality in many aspects. The physical and emotional aspects of zombies capture the average American citizen’s attention. Zombies are popular in modern day culture because the represent epidemic outbreaks, anxieties and our daily rituals. One reason why zombies are so popular in this era is because we can compare…

The Black Plague can be described as one of the worst disasters to ever hit mankind, claiming the lives of more than 25 million people in Europe during the 14th century (Benedictow 2005). It took only four short years for the Black Death to inflict its wrath from Asia to almost all of Europe because of the availability of commerce routes (McMullin 2003). The plague not only claimed the lives of so many, but it depressed the economy (Benedictow 2005). Massive labor shortages due to high rates…

type; it is when the disease passes from person to another through airborne droplets coughed from the lungs. It kills about 50 percent of those it infects. The Black plague has three major plague pandemics. The Justinian Plague, the Great Plague and the Modern Plague. The Justinian plague is the first pandemic that has been recorded, it was named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. The plague began in 541 A.D. and killed more than 25 million people and spread around the Mediterranean. The…

The Black Death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. Between the years of 1346 and 1353, the plague killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The Black death had originated in the plains of Central Asia, it quickly travelled along the Silk Road, until it reached Crimea in 1343. It was then spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe being carried by fleas living on black rats. Symptoms of the black death included victims having fevers, abdominal pain, feeling…

What Were the Primary Reasons for The “Fall” of Rome? What I really love doing is cooking chorizo with eggs. In order to make it, you have to keep spreading the chorizo into tiny pieces, mix it around for 4 minutes. While its cooking you have to crack open 2-3 eggs and mix it with a pinch of salt. You have to make sure the eggs don’t stick as much on the pan or its going to be hard to clean it. So now I want to learn is, what were the primary reasons why Rome crumbled? Natural disasters,…

The year is 1347, the place, Europe. Traders are a prominent source of financial and cultural distribution among the Eastern continent. Unbeknownst to the merchants that were traveling during this time, they not only spread many goods from the rural areas of Europe to its richer inner districts, but, they harbored one of the worst diseases known to mankind, the Black Plague. By 1348, the disease had spread from the Silk Roads to Constantinople, to which over the course of its life-span (slowing…