Outbreak

2004 Haiti was devastated by floods in both May and September, the 2005 Hurricane Dennis ruined coastal towns, a tropical storm in 2008 killed 800 people and 2010 saw their largest earthquake on record as well as an outbreak of cholera in the aftermath . The policy responses to outbreaks of unrest in Haiti have been sporadically spaced starting in July 1994 when the United Nations Security Council released the 940 resolution allowing military intervention. In September a multi national force…

Fear Immunity Modern day medicine has afforded us many benefits. One of these is the ability to live life without the fear of many communicable diseases putting susceptible populations at risk. These are diseases that in the not so distant past had wide spread morbidity but today are nearly unknown due to vaccinations. When we start wondering what the purpose of vaccines are, it’s paramount to recall what they’re protecting us against and buying into the fearmongering surrounding them. In the…

Recently, the Mandera County in Kenya has suffered an outbreak of Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease. Chikungunya is an RNA virus that causes infected individuals to suffer fever, muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue, rash, and joint pain. In most cases the joint pain can last several weeks, but in chronic cases the pain can last years. It is transmitted by female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitos and symptoms start to appear between 2 - 12 days after infection. During…

The Black Plague struck first in Southern Europe during the mid-fourteenth century and cause many hardships to the people of Europe. As the plague spread throughout Europe, many local communities took extreme measures in means of hoping to further stop the spread of the plague. While some people took extreme measures to prevent the plague, a majority of the population took religious stances in hopes of finding guidance, and as a way of hoping to escape the plague. Throughout the Black Plague,…

Also, outbreaks have occurred in, Chile in 2014, French Polynesia 2012-2014, New Caledonia, Cook Islands and, most recently, the Americas. Zika virus was first reported in May 2015 in continental South America in Brazil, where ≈440,000–1,300,000 persons have subsequently…

people, like John Snow, have been intelligent enough to solve the problems the disease has caused. In 1849, Snow came up with a theory about the cause of cholera. His theory was confirmed five years later, in London, England. In 1954, a cholera outbreak was happening. The source of the disease was…

(1844) to discuss the horrific conditions that bone-pickers went through in their daily journey in their job. Johnson, page 2. 2. In chapter three, Johnson opens with the streets of Soho being more quiet than usual due to the knowledge of the cholera outbreak spreading. Johnson continues to explain that Snow and Whitehead both studied how the Broad Street Water Pump could have been contaminating people. Snow studied in a lab, while Whitehead experimented by drinking the water. The theory of the…

Facing to the issue of food safety crisis, Bella Food has taken different management strategies at each stage of the Salmonella outbreak. At the start, the CEO, Alfredo adopted human relations management approach as he taking the business advices from his workers. Human relations management (HRM) is an effective approach for Bella Food on product improving and developing rather than decision-making. Since the approach allows Alfredo to evaluate his employees ' performance to seek more…

Outbreaks of cVDPV type 1 (cVDPV1) were reported in Madagascar (10 cases), Laos (eight cases) and Ukraine (two cases). cVDPV type 2 (cVDPV2) occurred in Guinea (seven cases), Myanmar (two cases), Pakistan (two cases) and Nigeria (one case). Cases with continued…

hospitalization and 61 deaths annually. CASE STUDY 1 The Walkerton, Ontario, Canada (population of 5,000) EHEC 0157 outbreak tragedy took place on 12 – 15th May, 2000. Reported 5 people died, 27 hospitalized and thousands sickened. This outbreak was due to the presence of EHEC O157 in the water supply of the small town. Symptoms started with reported cases of bloody diarrhea, gastrointestinal infections and accompanied with other symptoms. Even with these reported cases, the Walkertown Public…