Epidemic

Indeed, culture is reconfigured into a “risk-factor.” Accounts of the disease paint African culture as an obstacle to prevention and epidemic control, such a linking the eruption of the disease to practices such as burial traditions or consumption of bushmeat. But this emphasis is misleading and propels a sense of African “otherness,” rather than evidence, and underpins dominant culturalist…

There’s a hidden epidemic in the sports world that the public knows little to nothing about. This epidemic is not only found in athletes, but also in average individuals such as yourself. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is one of the epidemics that is found among the elderly, but now is being found in young athletes. ALS is a disease which attacks the body, leaving only the brain intact. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, is a similar disease; however, it only attacks the brain.…

easy to produce, cheap, easy to use and caused an intense and immediate high (“Crack Cocaine: A Short History”). The crack epidemic caused a surge in violence in the black community; between 1984 and 1994, weapons arrests increased by 25% and the homicide rate among black males from 14-24 went up approximately 200% (Fryer, Heaton, Levitt and Murphy, 2-3). To combat this epidemic, New York City increased its police force significantly by growing the force by 45% between 1991 and 2001 (Levitt). …

October 1918, more than 300,000 people died in the United States from the flu. The lack of personnel, both public and private, led to thousands of businesses and basic services such as electricity, water and telephone were interrupted. However, the epidemic would cause much more per capita victims in Europe than in the United States, because of better management of the situation in that country. In the United States, unlike Europe, patients were transferred to large control centers, thus…

responsive. Succinctly, motivation for this change does matter to the consumers who purchase Kraft products every day, since they witness the results of the consumption of Kraft foods by their family and friends. Conversely, the world is facing an obesity epidemic and changes to make healthier food products is an important step to changing the mindset…

If not diagnosed and treated promptly with fluids, death will be inevitable. . Epidemiology Cholera is a major cause of epidemic diarrhea throughout the developing world. There has been an ongoing global pandemic in Asia, Africa and Latin America for the last four decades. In 2011, a total of 58 countries reported a cumulative total of 589,854 cases including 7,816 deaths (case fatality rate of 1.3%) to the World Health Organization (WHO). There was an 85% increase in number of cholera cases as…

fixed in order for America to become healthier. Americans are becoming obese due to our unhealthy eating habits, food choices, and lifestyle. However, the Health and Human Services could help America become healthier. As you may know, the obesity epidemic is rising due to the concern of America’s eating habits and bad choices. The portion sizes on our plates could be one of many reasons why Americans are unhealthy. The more food on our plates, the more Americans continue to eat. The more…

topics of national concern. One such topic of concern within our society is the nation’s opioid epidemic. Lives are being lost at an alarming rate, state and local governments are scrambling to address the issue with policy and programs, and the news media are capturing it all. Before news media effects can be accurately described, one must obtain a clear understanding of the magnitude of the epidemic and its underlying causes.…

from all agree that one of the main reasons that these epidemics have become so out of hand is the media involvement. I believe that if we were more educated about the subject matter at hand, we could find affordable working treatments that these individuals need. Media is the main problem for creating out of proportion ideas about illnesses that…

lacking production of crops, and the crops that did grow were dying. For some reason God had punished Europe with seven bad years of weather and famine which lead to the greatest plague of all time. This plague was known as the “Bubonic Plague”, an epidemic that was soon to be spread from Asia…