1918 flu pandemic

Science is the root of our planet, our living and everything around us. If we want to improve our living standard or solving the problem of the whole world, we should make used on science and this is technology. “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. “Said by Edward Teller, A Physicist in US. Every new technology we have invented right now, will become a piece of puzzle of our future. A picture of a high living standard is what we all want to see and that’s why we must spend more…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “ The Masque of the Red Death” the main focus is not on just the party itself but what lies outside of Prince Prospero's abby, the black plague. This was a grave disease that tormented the people of Europe during the 14th Century. It originally came from a bacteria in rats that then would be transferred to humans in the form of a flea bite. Due to the disease being a bacteria once it was in ones system they could easily infect someone else through both the air and bodily…

Philadelphia, the largest and most important U.S. city, soon fell apart in the summer of 1793. A deadly disease with absolutely no cure spread through the city like wildfire, killing more than 5,000 people. Conditions were so horrible, that almost everyone who could leave left. The whole government fled the city, including George Washington, the first U.S. president. Only one government official was brave enough to stay behind and help. Matthew Clarkson was a symbol of heroism for all those who…

Although all forms of plague are very fatal, the first form was the least deadliest of the three. This form is the Bubonic Plague. It was spread by fleas that carried the disease from rats. When one contracts this disease they usually start with flu-like symptoms and a fever. Following this buboes, which are “...black welts and bulges” form in lymph node areas(Cantor 12). These black marks are what lead to this outbreak being termed, “The Black Death”. In normal situations, the lymph nodes would…

The Black Death was one of the most devastating diseases in human history. The disease spread fast and covered the territory from China to England and the western part of Europe, covering almost all of Europe within several years. The disease was mysterious to Medieval people, the medicine back in the day was underdeveloped to fight such a disease as the Black Death, which was thought to be a plague. The development and spread of the disease was fast and started the depopulation of Europe. At…

When we hear of new pandemics or epidemics, we usually feel safe knowing that our government and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has controls and the technology to isolate, immunize, and cure many types of bacterial diseases and infections. Also, private companies invest…

Unintended Consequences of the Columbian Exchange was the diseases that the Europeans brought over to the new world. Such ass smallpox and measles. The Native American people have never been exposed to any such disease. The native American had no immunity whatsoever and absolutely no medicine to treat for smallpox or measles. Illnesses that were mostly common to the people and sometimes treatable in Europe totally ravaged the population. Smallpox was the worst by far, the disease spread like…

The Black Death “was probably the greatest public health disaster in recorded history.”(449) It spread across the Eurasian continent and in parts of Africa in the 1340’s, killing and estimated 70 million people and over 60% of the European population. It was used as the first ever form of biological warfare by the Mongols. Three Authors named Gabriele de’ Mussis, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Ahmad al-Maqrizi wrote about their first and second hand accounts of the decease; and how it affected people…

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead used their knowledge of the disease to find out how prevalent it was over the whole city of London. The disease may have been unfamiliar to them, but common to the millions of people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes were not as good or advanced as theirs. The story reflects the world through the wide varieties of disciplines,…

In his “The Tipping Point”, with the help of various illustrations, Gladwell points out how things become epidemic and how little things make big differences in social realities. Reading “The Law of the Few” made me think about how ideas and behavior can spread like diseases or viruses. Also, the book made me think of life as an epidemic. As far as I understand, one of the reasons why Gladwell brings examples of epidemics and viruses is that a lot of things in life, such as ideas, behavior and…