Ebola

Zombies in today’s society are recognized as slow, dead, flesh eating creatures that take over the world, such as in The Walking Dead. When zombies come to mind, people think of apocalypse, destruction, and end of the world or humanity. Overtime, the concept of zombies is changing, so is people’s concept of technology. Technology is controlling people’s lives, just like zombies might take over the world someday. For example, when a group of people go out for dinner, they do not socialize with…

GEOG 1992-108 Jifeng Wang 10/10/2015 Position Paper #1 Globalization can improve the lives of people both in core and peripheral country, if core countries and peripheral countries work together to improve education, economic growth, health care and birth control. Globalization is showing its own positive value, which encourage closer communicating on many countries. World Trade Organization (WTO) helps core and peripheral countries trade goods with…

History tells us that as the globe has become more connected and as goods and people can move more freely, farther, and more quickly than ever before, that disease is sure to follow. This week's reading cited the Mongols who brought the plague from Burma and devastated Europe as well as the Europeans who decimated native populations in the Americas. Today we hear about HIV/AIDS, dengue fever, drug-resistant tuberculosis, and other diseases that spread thanks to globalization. Likewise,…

An Analysis of Centers for Disease Control Examining Internal and External Factors The Communicable Disease Center (CDC) was initiated in Atlanta, Georgia. The center was opened and occupied one floor in a small building on July 1, 1946 under the leadership of Founder Joseph Mountin (CDC, 2013). The CDC paid Emory University $10 to occupy 15 acres of land on Clifton Road in Atlanta that now serves as CDC Headquarters (CDC, 2013). The CDC has grown immensely since its doors founding. The…

The 1918 “Spanish flu” Pandemic was caused by an avian-like influenza virus that gained the ability for efficient and sustained human-to-human transmission and then spread globally, killing 20-50 millions. Fortunately, viruses with pandemic potential are rare occurrences and ongoing surveillance of human and avian viruses is being done globally in preparedness for an influenza pandemic. Vaccines and anti-viral drugs may be available, if needed and time permits. Both kinds of therapies have…

In my student selected novel, “Fever, 1793”, many different events took place that wouldn’t happen in today's time. The biggest being the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. It was widespread and grew like wildfire across Mattie’s hometown. The citizens had a hard time getting rid of the fever. Not until the frost came did the death count go down along with the number of people getting sick. In today's time we have more advanced systems in which we can take down a virus. Doctors have a…

people. The brokenness could have left her depressed and lonely for months but instead she turned around and changed her life and others by sharing what she had left with Retirement Community. So she chooses to do well with it. The other example is Ebola patient, who was miles away from families and friends while dying. He must have burden of brokenness setting on his hurt but the care providers, who was working with him made me comfortable, loved and showed him that they care and he is not…

create a competitive advantage in regards to other airlines. Due to issues that have happened in the past, specifically 9/11, prospective customers are not looking to other modes of transportation for travel. Along with 9/11, the outbreak of diseases (Ebola, H1N1) across the world causes customers to be extremely cautious when deciding how to travel. This means that it is no longer a competition between airlines as to who has the customers drawn in, but with other transportation services that…

Community Health Philosophy Bhumika Chaudhari Nebraska Wesleyan University Sep 29 2015 The concept of community health nurse is the provision of nursing care for collective people, bound in relationships that are called families, other groups, aggregates, and communities (Holzemer and Klainberg, 2014). Proving nursing care to the clients in community involves additional responsibility of caring for the client as a nurse in community setting. Nurse has that caring nature that she has to apply…

This made their whole city-state weak, and shortly after, Sparta tried to invade Thebes but lost a crucial battle. They kept the fighting when they could have been getting new soldiers. After awhile, Athens caught a plauge, which was guessed to be ebola. After that happened they called a truce on the war, and they agreed to Sparta’s terms. Then, eventually they let another enemy come swooping in and take out their empire for…