Cholera

mentioned previously, the outbreaks experienced in camps is seen as both a major health and social problem because the diseases are so easily spread between people living together with a lack of required resources and poor sanitation systems. The cholera outbreak was caused by the sewage leak from the United Nations camp which then created a major health problem because that sewage was leaking directly into Haiti’s largest river. The river that many depended on for gathering to use as a water…

The Ghost Map, written by Steven Johnson, is a story about the cholera outbreak in England around the mid-1800s. Cholera is a bug, after ingested, it multiples on the intestinal wall, tricking the cells to release water instead of absorbing it. The disease killed much of the population. Johnson used many techniques to show how serious the disease was during that time period. From imagery to irony, he used it all, but which were the most effective? The book is an excellent example of how paying…

medicine has improved a lot, there are still some diseases that are very dangerous. One of the most disease that people should worry about is Ebola, because a lot of people have died from it and it was the most widespread outbreak. Other people think cholera is the worst because it killed millions of people worldwide. However, the virus that showed some of the most severe outcome was the Spanish flu. The Spanish flu is an extremely severe disease that killed 500 million people worldwide. In…

breeding of cholera bacteria in Haiti (Jutla, Whitcombe, Hasan, Haley, Akanda, Huq, Colwell, 2014). Because Haiti is the poorest Western hemisphere country, numerous economic barriers arise for citizens trying to achieve healthcare (Urrutia, Merisier, Small, Urrutia, Tinfo, & Walmer, 2012). Fortunately, there is hope for Haitians in addressing health issues. People in Haiti are used to defecating in the open, without much regard for the sanitary risks or consequences (Kennedy, 2013). Cholera…

know what disease it was until a while later, we then found out that it was cholera.…

killing the patient. There were lots of diseases and problems people in the nineteenth century caught. Some of the most common caught were smallpox (a highly contagious life threatening virus caused by Variola marked by small dots on the skin), fever, cholera (a bacterial disease related to drinking water), diphtheria, tuberculosis and measles. Smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles are all communicable diseases.…

most important issue. Disease being spread to drinking water and food sources is only going to make things worse. Cholera is a disease that is contracted through drinking water and food sources. This infection gets into the digestive tract wreaking havoc inside of the intestines. It is an epidemic in many countries of Africa. Its estimated that there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths…

and 1.0% were Vibrio cholera (Tista et al., 2007). Probably the most important pathogenic bacteria transmitted by the water route are Salmonella typhi, the organism causing typhoid fever, and Vibrio cholera, the organism causing cholera (Madigan et al., 1997). Pathogens are a serious concern for managers of water resources, because excessive amounts of faecal bacteria in sewage…

Edgar Allan Poe’s death is a very controversial topic. No doubt about it. When it's brought up in conversation, many people begin to argue. Last week, our class held a Socratic Seminar about this topic. And I believe that what I chose to talk about was the right decision, and how I knew it was. During the Seminar, I brought up the theory of cooping, thinking it would be the right thing thing to do. Just in case you don't know, Cooping is a form of kidnaping the involves drugging someone,…

Before the industrial revolution, most families were living in small villages. They were either working in agriculture or as skilled craftsmen. Families worked by hand as a family. In the early industrial revolution era, three-quarter of workers was living in the countryside and farming was a predominant occupation. The one-quarter of Britain’s population was industrialised however, everything started to slowly change. The new laws now meant that people had to pay for their own fencing and…