1918 flu pandemic

vaccines for the virus each year because the virus adapts to the new treatments. If scientists and doctors were unable to create new treatments, influenza could would spread person to person quickly. Influenza, or as it’s commonly known as, the flu, is very contagious and spreads easily among people via sneezing, coughing, or burping. This transmission is difficult to shield off. In…

Public Health Problem Severe acute respiratory syndrome also known as SARS was caused by an unfamiliar animal coronavirus that highly took advantage of the “wet markets” in southern China to adapt and succeed as an infectious virus between humans. Hospitals and international travel were the main pathways that led to a local outbreak and eventually to a global scale. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) between November 2002 and July 2003, the outbreak of SARS caused 8,096 cases and…

The 1910s was at the end of the Progressive Era where it introduced a plethora of new events and forms of technology. This decade proposed new ideas and concepts that had not been talked about before in the history of the United States such as the fights for women's rights and poor working conditions for white-collar jobs. This decade had its boom and bust cycles along with new presidents that shifted the course of America. The 1910s had many events that make it history, the sinking of the…

Hospital Mudros, a town on the island of Lemnos, in Greece which was used as an allied base with influenza and diarrhoea. Commonly known as the flu, influenza is an extremely contagious virus pasted from person to person by sneezing or coughing. In the Great War, more people died of influenza rather than the war itself. The pandemic outbreak however started in 1918 after Bergin’s death. Diarrhoea during World War One was common, caused by bacteria entering the mouth in food or water. This was…

“The 1918 flu pandemic was responsible for the death of more than 675,000 Americans and more than 50 million people worldwide. The devastation and fear caused by this pandemic is in part, what initiated the desire to be vaccinated today” (Carson-Dewitt and Lee 9). Clearly a debate exists on whether or not to vaccinate. Various authors have offered their opinions on this issue. Although both sides of the argument have persuasive points; in the end, vaccinations should be mandatory for children.…

The lives of women and civilians transformed greatly during the Great War. Women contributed to industrial needs by taking on men’s roles and occupations when the men left for war such as running businesses and managing farms. It benefited the women because those manly jobs resulted in high wages. However, the male jobs exposed women and children to the crucial work and dangers of war. Many women and children worked hard and long hours in factories and the factories were surrounded with…

Influenza commonly known as the flu is a respiratory contagious disease that affects mostly the nose, throat, bronchi and sporadically the lungs. This infection disease is caused by RNA viruses of the family of Orthomyxoviridae and affects birds and mammals. There are 3 classifications of Influenza: Influenza A – Found in aquatic birds which are a natural host and often transmitted to poultry and humans. It is often the virus that is responsible for human pandemics. Influenza B – Is less…

out or away from it. They all search for some kind of cure. The two most recent outbreaks are what I’d like to shed light to. The zika virus and the H1N1 swine flu virus which have both struck fear into Americans hearts. I am questioning if the two outbreaks are similar and If they should be treated the same way. March 2009 H1N1 swine flu appeared in the united states after being reported in other places around the globe. Although,…

Article 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better called master consulting detective Sherlock Holmes' founder. All these reports appeared within the String magazine from 1891 to 1927, several created by Sidney Paget's famous images in serialised form. There's been a contemporary meaning of the investigative duo using the BBC Tv series Sherlock, starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Series 1 was televised in the next sequence as well as in 2012, with recording of the third currently underway…

World War I is infamous for the excessive number of deaths that occurred during its four-year period. The battle with the most recorded deaths during the Great War is known as the Meuse- Argonne Offensive, which is briefly mentioned in Ernest Hemingway’s short story Soldier’s Home. The Argonne Forest is an area of land that is situated in France, about 150 miles away from France (The American Battle Monuments Commission). According to a New York Times columnist Richard Rubin, who visited the…