Outbreak

The Problem: The Haitian Cholera Outbreak We have made many leaps and bounds towards a healthier future, mostly in part due to scientific research, immediate international cooperation, and the proper allocation of resources. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked and confirmed the eradication of worldwide diseases such as smallpox. This also includes the reduction in prevalence for diseases such as measles through aggressive immunization campaigns. We have come to address the…

The author of Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Chernoh Alpha M.Bah, explanation of the outbreak in Sierra Leon and how it influences people’s perception and the response to Ebola from both the political and social perceptive, is one of my favourite reading as it correlates to the topics discuss in lectures so far. As he demonstrated, structural violence in this case must be understood in the context of a regional history and global economy that have cultivated inequalities. For instance, it is no…

This article is basically about how the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil is really just a big lie told by the World Health Organization (WHO). In January, there was a report that 4,000 cases of newly born babies had microcephaly and extremely small heads. After some Brazilian researchers went and took a look, only about 404 of those babies really had microcephaly. Then, after more research, only 17 of those cases were even related to the Zika virus. Because of this discovery, it is proven the…

these streets. Then he turned down another street. Steven was headed up his old street that his house was on. He never went into his house because he was afraid that he would find one of his family members turned, but today marks one year when the outbreak started. He was separated from his family during the evacuation. So he walked up to his old front door, afraid of what he would see inside. He opened the door to see a turned walker inside. Steven, scared and afraid, pulled out his knife. He…

It has been a while since I last wrote, but I have never stopped thinking about you. The past couple months have been a boring mix of British haughtiness and training for a war that has no meaning to our people. I dream of coming home to you and our beautiful children, but I am afraid to say that this campaign for ‘freedom’ and ‘righteousness’ in Siberia has just begun for us Quebecois man in the 259th. We arrived in Vladivostok just five days ago, on the 26th October, onboard an enormous and…

The end of World War II left the US, Britain, Russia, and the rest of the Allied Powers to decide the fate of Germany and Japan. Reaching consensus among the Allies was not an easy task. The US and Britain had extremely different ideological values from the USSR, which would prove disadvantageous in the nations’ hopes for maintaining positive relations. Without a common goal to defeat Germany, the US and the USSR began to clash. Within only a few years of the completion of World War II, the Cold…

into something solid, knocking him unconscious. Zack gained little consciousness and heard a faint noise of a chainsaw in the background, and then soon realized he was being carried away, before everything went black again. Three months prior, a flu outbreak had occurred. Over thousands of people in the United States got infected. But as a person usually would, they went to the doctor and got put on medication. No one actually knew how many people got…

My research paper will be on the importance of vaccinating your children. In the article Measles outbreak highlights vaccine debate Dr. Friedlander reports in Disneyland, "more than 80% of the reported cases occurred in unvaccinated people." This helps show how you can't always rely on herd immunity and that if people had been vaccinated the measles outbreak we had in 2015 wouldn't have traveled so far or infected as many people. In 5 myths surrounding vaccines – and the reality; I will talk…

CA: Savant Learning Systems. Retrieved from: https://www.betheluniversityonline.net Dewey, C. (2017). A Chipotle Restaurant is Closed After Yet Another Foodborne Illness Outbreak. Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/18/a-chipotle-restaurant-is-closed-after-yet-another-foodborne-illness-outbreak/?utm_term=.c58c82a60d74 Retrieved on: 15 November 2017. Fisher, P.D. (2016). The Great CPA Followership Crisis. CPA Journal, 86(12), 36-45. Kotter, J.P. & Schlesinger, L…

This scene contains the last few minutes of peace before we find out the Georgia Flu outbreak is about to kill 99% of the population. This book is not intended to be an action film, but I want this scene to come across as if it was. When compared to the rest of the movie, this scene is thrilling and action packed while the rest are more dramatic…