1918 flu pandemic

In my student selected novel, “Fever, 1793”, many different events took place that wouldn’t happen in today's time. The biggest being the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. It was widespread and grew like wildfire across Mattie’s hometown. The citizens had a hard time getting rid of the fever. Not until the frost came did the death count go down along with the number of people getting sick. In today's time we have more advanced systems in which we can take down a virus. Doctors have a…

enormous influenza issue. The chapter starts off with laboratories everywhere focusing on the influenza. In britain everyone in almroth wright’s worked on it, especially alexander fleming. Germany, italy, and russia all searched for an answer. By fall of 1918 research had been cut and the focus was only on war, so researchers focused on poison gas and how to fight against it, preventing infection of wounds , also ways to prevent diseases such as trench fever which is not serious but had already…

Ziegler’s The Black Death was a human disaster of the fourteenth century. Ziegler wrote the book in 1969. He discusses how the black plague traveled and how much destruction it caused. The plague outbreak took place during the 1340’s. It became a pandemic that spread out all over England. He focused mostly on the plague in England throughout the book. He connected how the plague spread from there to other country’s villages. The book was a way for Ziegler to inform people of the mass effects…

The Black Death was a major epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed over one third of Eurasia’s population in the 1350s. Last year, I travelled to China, Italy, and England to find out how the Black Death impacted Eurasia during the 1300s. Throughout my journey, I investigated the Silk Road in China, the Orsanmichele church in Italy, and the Museum of London in England for clues that would help me discover the factors that made the Black Death one of the most devastating epidemics in human…

Epidemic Typhus Typhus is a group of infectious disease caused by the bacteria rickettsiae. It is mostly characterized by a purple rash, headaches, fever, and usually delirium, and has historically been the cause of high death rates during wars and famines due to the issue of cleanliness that occurs. There are several forms, and they are all transmitted by things such as lice, ticks, mites, and rats. Specifically for epidemic typhus, humans are the most common hosts. Disease Background The first…

years of 1347 and 1350. The amount of lives lost during this pandemic suddenly stopped the economic expansion that spread throughout Europe and Islam (Smith et al. 478). The Black Death resulted in an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia. The black death not only affected the population it also affected the way the economy was set up. It affected trade and the all the ways that goods get from place to place. The black death pandemic not only struck the higher classes, but it hit those…

Both the bubonic plague in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries and the epidemics, such as smallpox, in the Americas caused by the European settlers in the 15th and 16th centuries were major events that had a significant impact on the areas they affected and their future development. Even though they occurred at different times and in different places, they both share some commonalities. One way these two epidemics were similar is in how quickly and easily they spread, one person being able to…

Guinea is an African country. It is located in West Africa – Sub-Saharan Region. It is located between Guinea Bissau and Senegal in the north; Mali and Cote d’Ivoire in the east; Liberia and Sierra Leone in the south and Atlantic Ocean in the West. Guinea has four natural regions: coastal plain; mountainous region; savanna region; and a forest region. “Total area: 94,927 sp mi (245,861 sq km); Population (2013 est.): 11,176,026 (growth rate: 2.64%); birth rate: 36.3/1000; life expectancy: 59;…

There is at least 93 confirmed pandemics and epidemics from the 16th through the 20th century. The Europeans were under the impression God was on their side and that he was the reason behind Native Americans dying in such large numbers. Some Native Americans however believed that God…

resulted from the pandemic. Emily St. John Mandel develops the message that before and after the apocalypse humans continue to have the same basic human and social…