1918 flu pandemic

Elaine Marcello Human and Animal Interrelationships 30 October 2014 The Black Plague: Rough draft The Black Plague, commonly known as the Black Death was a disease that caused extensive damage to Europe during the years of 1346 through 1353. The disease is believed to derive from a bacterium frequently found in populations of fleas that are carried around by a variety of different rodents. The death toll of this unfortunate disease would build all the way up to 20 million people, which turned…

The plague killed more than 25 million people around the world. The plague had lots of causes and effects. Most people in Europe experienced The Black Death. The plague’s cause sparked scientists all over the world. Scientists found bacteria to be one of the causes of The Black Death. The bacterium was called Yersinia pestis (Dobson 8). The bacterium circulated among rodents (Benedictow). This bacterium was once harmless, but evolved to kill thousands of people (“Researchers” O6a). Scientists…

income sources. But just like how fire catches, it has also introduced some unforeseen problems. Nowadays, diseases spread easily worldwide with the help of tourism. For example; The Infamous Influenza virus that caused influenza, commonly known as flu. When a person who is infected by the influenza virus decided to visit a foreign country, he or she will most likely introduces the virus to the country. By doing so, tourism has contributed in harming one’s country.…

beginning of the 20th century, there have been five IAV pandemics, including the 1918 pandemic, which is estimated to have been responsible for 50-100 million deaths worldwide (Taubenberger & Morens, 2006). Each major influenza pandemic has been associated with the appearance of a new subtype circulating in humans. Additionally, particularly virulent pandemic strains and in particular the 1918 strain tend to attenuate during the course of the pandemic, likely a result of adaptation to humans…

military, and obstructing recruiting . In May of 1918 the sedition act added nine additional offenses. Taken together, these made it illegal to do, to say, or to write anything that might tend to hinded the war effort, support America’s enemies, or bring contempt or disrespect upon the government, flag, uniform,…

Monday, September 21st: My role in clinical today was clinic manager. This role is responsible for helping Mrs. Lutz in running the clinic. The first task of the day was to test the glucose meter to make sure that it is calibrated correctly. At first the glucose meters were not reading correctly. Every meter said error so we determined that it must be because it was cold in the room, and the meters were cold. Regardless of what the reason was, the meters started to work. The other main task we…

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In Station Eleven, the Traveling Symphony is a group focused performing classic Shakespearean literature, and classic music. The group consists of survivors of the pandemic, and are now using art to relate back to the world that was left behind by the flu. Mandel uses The Traveling Symphony‘s motto of “survival is insufficient” (Mandel 58) to emphasize the idea that at the end of days, survival is only one part of the formula to live in a damaged world. As…

against the flu because of several reasons. One possible reason is that Mr I may have got exposed to the influenza viruses either shortly before getting vaccinated or during the two-week period after vaccination (2) which is when the body is still developing immune protection. This means that there is a chance that people such as Mr I may become ill even before they have the beneficial effects of the vaccine taking place. In addition, it is a fact “that there are many different flu viruses that…

This report investigates the disease Swine flu, also known as human swine influenza or H1N1 Influenza. An outbreak of this disease has already occurred in the recent past as it made headlines back in 2009 when it was declared a pandemic because of the factors that is was a contagious disease quickly affecting many people throughout the world or on multiple continents at once. The virus had not previously been identified meaning the flu had extreme research put into so that information on it…