1918 flu pandemic

Every summer there seems to be an exponential increase in the number of terrible videos on the news and the Internet that exhibit terrifying images of forests engulfed in flames and cities completely bogged down with smoke. When reading the section of Beowulf where the dragon gets mad and burns down the Geats’ homeland, the scene depicted in the poem is very similar to those scenes shown by the news. America’s wildfires may not come from a monstrous dragon, but they are just as damaging, and…

Health in the Elizabethan was very poor. Knowledge about sanitation and medical treatments were limited. People started to believe that if they had a disease the soul was bad. As popularity was increasing the sanitation was worsening. Doctor would determine the disease based on the persons urine color or they we determined it on the four humors which is blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy, if the humors we imbalanced they we said to be sick they would be cured by removing or adding blood or…

The black death was one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It was caused by the bubonic plague and its variants,. In the 14th century something happened that caused the disease spread . It was likely the rise of trade. The disease lived in fleas carried by rats. When a rat died, the fleas on that rat would need to find another host. When that host was a human, the people would get very sick and most people who had the disease would die very quickly. It is assumed that the…

On Thursday 4th of May 2017, BBC published an article about the dormant diseases, bacteria, and viruses hidden in the ice that was waking up as a result of climate change. I thought it was a very interesting article for one. Humans were strange; some very intelligent and curious - my favorite kinds of humans - and some were just… odd. Technology was pretty tremendous in 2017. Most humans had smartphones and other electronic devices that kept them in touch with the news and other stuff.…

The Black Plague was a very dangerous plague that started in Europe in the early 1300’s. It took out nearly a third of all the European population during the first wave and more followed that. This plague started thanks to the Y. Pestis bug in China and from there, it just rapidly began to spread across Europe. Of course, we now know a lot of information about this today, but in the early 1300’s people didn’t really understand what was going on. The Europeans began to try to figure out the…

1. During my summers working as a camp counselor in 2006-2009, many events took place during these years. However, just within the USA and just within these summers I was able to narrow down the events that took place In the summer of 2006, the Louisiana Superdome reopened. This was a big deal since so many repairs had to be mad after the damages made by hurricane Katrina. In my research I learned that re-roofing this building was the largest roofing project in US history. It took thirteen…

Before the Black Death plagued Europe during the late Middle Ages, the continent was already facing the worst. The “little ice age” had created colder weather leading to failed harvests and malnourishment, ultimately leaving most of the population either dead or susceptible to disease. In addition to this, improvements in ship design, though profitable for merchants, invited pathogen-ridden vermin to infect all they crossed paths with. This, in accompaniment with a lack of public health and…

Throughout history, mankind has been faced with several catastrophes and crises that needed to be overcame to ensure existence. Three epidemic plagues that humanities are credited to have defeated are the Black Death of the fourteenth century, the Justinian Plague, and the late nineteenth century Chinese Plague (Rosen 247). Being said, one of the most destructive disaster’s the human race has witnessed was the Black Death, which devastated the structure of the world at the time. A civilization…

The Black Death The Black Death was a deadly plague, made up of the septicaemic, the pneumonic and the bubonic plague. It occurred during the Middle Ages killing millions from China, across to Europe and down to Africa and Egypt. The plague was a pandemic because this it was so brutal and damaged a vast amount of the population in many different countries. The septicaemic The rarest and most deadly form of the plague was the septicaemic. It attacked you from your blood stream and within hours…

The Bubonic plague was a horrific time in history. The Plague took Europe by storm. It started December 31st, 1347(Source: Plague Map). People were dying all throughout Europe. Just about 23 million died between the years 1345 and 1400(Source: http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Black_De.htm) . The physicians at the time died or they would over price just to inspect the ill. People abandoned their families and let the die alone. (Source: Marchione di Coppo). Everyone accusing innocent people for…