Dengue fever

in endemic areas. The number of cases of yellow fever has been increasing drastically since the 80’s. This is thought to be due to more people living in cities, less people being immune, people moving frequently and of course, climate change. Originating in Africa, it spread to South America in the 17th century via the slave trade. Since then, numerous major occurrences of the disease have occurred in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Yellow fever was seen as one of the most dangerous…

The traumatizing scenes a man experiences during a plague probably haunt him throughout his life – if he manages to survive. In Jack London’s 1912 novella, “The Scarlet Plague”, London brilliantly narrates the life of an elderly man, Granser who manages to survive the lethal hands of the plague that decimated millions sixty years ago, reverting the once “colossal civilization” (16) to cave-man existence. Granser recounts the emergence of the Scarlet Plague and its catastrophic impact on society…

A “virus” is defined as: “an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by a light microscope, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host” (Document B). Originating from Uganda, the Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 in an infected money in the Zika forest, where its name originates. The Zika virus is a typical one-stranded RNA virus with nucleotide sequences relating it to other African and Asian virus…

Fever 1793 Matilda Cook lives in Pennsylvania at the Coffee House with Mother, Grandfather, his parrot- King George, Silas- Matilda’s cat, and Eliza their cook. Polly is the serving girl and she didn’t show up to work one day. Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by…

Robert S. Desowitz tells the story of two well-known diseases that affect many rural villagers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America of his novel The Malaria Capers. The first section of the book deals with Kala azar, which is transmitted by a fly. Desowitz begins the novel by introducing a tragic story in India of a distressed mother with a sick child. She traveled miles from her small village to a clinic, where her daughter was diagnosed with Kala azar or Visceral Leishmaniasis. The child is…

seen in the western world. This model is central to explaining how age, income, environmental conditions and housing play an important role in the rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in New Zeeland. The effect of implementing a social model of health in New Zealand shows in current rates of acute rheumatic fever. Wade and Halligan’s (2004), report on biomedical models state…

Salmonella may enter the bloodstream and stay in tissues/organs away from the gut. Once someone has been infected with the Salmonella bacteria, it takes about 8 to 48 hours for symptoms to begin. Some Symptoms of Salmonella include: chills, muscle aches, fever, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Young children will typically have a severe reaction to food contaminated with Salmonella. Children under 5 years of age have a higher chance of having the bacteria spread into their bloodstream and…

Colonial Life: Dealing with Yellow Fever in Fever 1793 Throughout history, there has always been disease spreading throughout the world. There have been times where a society as a whole have fallen, whether it be from the disease itself or by hands of others. Colonial America was a mecca for disease and death in the 18th century. In the midst of trying to survive deadly diseases, women were trying to gain a role in society. Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel, Fever 1793, creates strong female…

the hardest dilemmas that doctors face. According to Nuland’s novel, The Doctor’s Plague, where a group of obstetrical doctors came together at Vienna’s general hospital, Allgemeine Krankenhaus, in order to figure out the leading causes of childbed fever epidemic (Nuland). It took them years and decades to find out the roots of the disease. They conducted several theories and experiments to come up a solution, and most of them did not succeed. Semmelweis was one of the young obstetricians who…

Fever 1793 In the summer of 1793 a deadly sickness called Yellow fever spreads everywhere and affects almost everyone, including a young fourteen year old girl, named Matilda, but goes by Mattie. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her family owns a coffee shop in a small wooden building. When Mattie hears about the yellow fever that is caused by a female mosquito bite she becomes so worried. Almost the whole city gets infection with this fever, including Mattie's mother. Her mother…