1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics are events in which a disease spreads across the entire world. Many pandemics have become notorious for their lethality, symptoms, or historical events that surrounded them. Various notorious and formidable pandemics include the ‘Black Death’ and the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic. The ‘Black Death’ was a pandemic caused by the plague that killed an estimated 25 million people (“Black Death”). The HIV/AIDS pandemic killed an…

it? Then what does an individual do to prevent this new virus from infecting them? This is called an influenza pandemic. According to the CDC, an influenza pandemic is a new virus that is different from any influenza seen and effects the entire globe. Additionally, due to its constant changing it is very easy for an animal influenza to change into a human effecting one (“Influenza” (Flu)). Therefore, it is very difficult to treat. An influenza virus is one that attacks the respiratory system…

will be talking about the Spanish influenza. The first paragraph is how it entered the United States. The second paragraph is about how many people in total died from this disease. The third paragraph is about if this flu can come back. The pandemic began in the US in March 1918, at a crowded army camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. Then, the transport of hundreds of thousands of infected troops in close physical contact between camps caused influenza to spread quickly even before troops gathered in…

A man goes to see his local clinician. He reports that he has the flu; nothing too serious at the first thought. He did not plan to see a doctor, but in the past few days he has become too weak to work and that morning started to cough up blood. He contemplated whether he should go to the hospital, but he remembered the news saying that there was an overflow of patients and a rather large proportion waited for hours to receive treatment, so he resorted to the clinic His doctor sadly explains…

What is an ethical dilemma? An ethical dilemma is a situation where a choice must be made between two options, but neither resolves the problem ethically. The use of the 1918 influenza as dual use research is the eptiome of an ethical dilemma. The 1918 influenza was a pandemic that killed approximately 20-50 million people (Trilla et al. 2008). Recently, it was revived from extinction to be used as dual use research. Dual use research is a termed applied to research that is intended for benefit…

Isabella Discua 4/18/16 Period 2 . Influenza Catastrophe From 1918-1919, a deadly, contagious disease, known as the influenza pandemic was spreading at an incredibly fast rate worldwide. There are several names for the flu such as “Spanish Flu”, “Three-Day-Fever”, and “The Flu.” It was first recognized in Europe, the US, and parts of Asia before spreading worldwide. Many of the victims exposed to the disease were young and the adults were healthy. There were no effective medicine to cure or…

except because of an overreaction of the immune system, fluid gathered in the lungs which resulted in the development of pneumonia. The H1N1 virus was known best as the Spanish Flu and even though it most likely originated in China, the first reports of the virus came from Spanish Newspapers, while…

The Great Pandemic or better known as Influenza originated in 1918 in the united states more specifically Kansas. Influenza is a viral infection in the respiratory system (nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs) that is highly contagious. Tens of millions of people across the world died from influenza in America 500,000 americans lost their life due to influenza. Why do people remember the fatalities of the titanic but not influenza? I believe that people remember the titanic because their is…

Kyosha Valley is taking a proactive approach to addressing the issue of pandemics head on so that we can ensure a sustainable healthcare response at all Kyosha Valley practices. I have enacted guidelines for the pandemic preparedness policies, which will be effective immediately. Pandemics affect a large group of people under a very large radius. Many of the epidemics that countries experience come by due to inadequacy in knowledge about the disease in question. Such a disease spreads faster…

These Flu Epidemics come regularly, but around this time society’s scientists weren’t medically advanced as it is now. They didn’t have a vaccine to prevent from becoming infected. The only problem with flu vaccines is that a different strain comes every time. Every thing an infected individual touches, it leaves the virus there, then when the next uninfected individual comes, the virus attaches itself. When an infected individual coughs, that cough forms a cone that covers many people, landing…