2009 flu pandemic

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…

Saint Catherine of Siena was a very unknown woman of her time until certain events happened. Catherine was so persuasive and influential that she ended a conflict in France, in the fourteenth century, which was a relief for everyone. She was known as a visionary and a mystic, and she was declared Doctor of the Church because she loved to soothe and heal people in any religious and non harmful way. Even though Catherine always showed love and devotion to everyone, not everyone was happy about…

Reflection Paper on Ghost Map John Snow is recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern epidemiology. In Ghost Map, it gives the details of John Snow’s efforts to discover that cholera was a water-borne illness. What John Snow did differently was he mapped the cases, and the map essentially represented each death as a bar. On the Broad Street pump, which was free, public source of drinking water for a long time, it located a well beneath Golden Square, to some of London’s poorest and…

In the fourteenth century, the Black Death stood out as the most emotional and way of life changing occasion during this century. This death caused one third of all the people in Europe to be killed. This shocking population change coming into the Late Middle Ages brought on extraordinary changes in European society and way of life. This plague had three different ways that would affect your body and maybe just your entire life if you were lucky. There was the bubonic variant, which were…

Jamestown was a very fun place filled with lots of problems. Colonist died because of disease, famine, and indians. They had moved to Jamestown to find a permanent settlement. They were very hopeful to find their first permanent settlement in Jamestown (Roden 49). A lot of colonist died because of disease and famine. A few of them were killed by indians. So there could have been many more reason to death besides just disease, famine, and indians. This is only a few ways how colonist died. At…

The bubonic plague was allegedly caused by a bacterium called “Yersina pestis”, which was often found on wild rodents in large quantities and densities. At the time, these “wild rodents” were mostly black rats that were found on ships that were used for trade. If a rat was a host to a flea carrying the deadly bacterium, the rat would most likely die within 14 days. In order to survive, the fleas would then turn to human hosts. This is how the plague spread. Once the bacterium was present, the…

The Great Influenza The novel The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History was interesting to read from the view point of the award-winning writer John M. Barry. Barry was never any type of scientist, he is a historian who is writing on his thoughts of influenza. Scientists have improved our lives in ways some may not realize; without them society would not be able to treat the deadliest plague in history, influenza. I can imagine the criticism Barry may be getting…

Ebola has impacted the healthcare system as a whole due to its adverse effects on healthcare employees and facilities (Ebola Virus Disease, 2014).Thinking about the facility aspect the loss and infection of needed staff all the way to death. “Infection of health care staff trickles into the loss of healthcare resources and tools needed to treat common issues that can become deadly that normally would be easily treatable”( Ebola Virus Disease, 2014,p.1 ). I spoke earlier in my writing how in…

In relation to what Brian S stated, I agree that the term “Calamitous”, used by Barbara Tucker to describe The Late Middle Ages, completely describes the events that took place due to a domino effect that occurred. During the beginning of the 13th century, warmer climate allowed the economy in Europe to thrive. But, the climate altered to colder, wetter weather. This “Little Ice Age” caused a huge decrease in food production as storms destroyed crops on which animals and people in Europe…