Pandemic

When people hear the hear the words Middle Ages they usually think of knights in shining armor, nobles, kings and queens. But if you ask a historian they would say death, disease, poverty, unfairness, unsanitary, unexpected in the medical field. So something like the Black death could easily slaughter anyone who caught it. The Black Death didn't care what class they were if they caught it, it would mean certain death. The Black Death the worst epidemic of the Middle Ages the most mind boggling…

Typhoid fever in itself is not a disease well known by history. Typhoid fever played only a small part in the history of the human race and compared to other diseases comes across as more of a nuisance with exception to its role in the Plague of Athens. On the surface, “enteric fever” causes a small but common array of symptoms: fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, chills, muscle aches and skin rash. The cause of the disease is salmonella typhi, a bacterium that rides contaminated…

Zombies have overtaken the media world. They have consumed the film and television industry. They continue to grow as viewers are attracted and can relate to how zombies represent our reality in many aspects. The physical and emotional aspects of zombies capture the average American citizen’s attention. Zombies are popular in modern day culture because the represent epidemic outbreaks, anxieties and our daily rituals. One reason why zombies are so popular in this era is because we can compare…

What Were the Primary Reasons for The “Fall” of Rome? What I really love doing is cooking chorizo with eggs. In order to make it, you have to keep spreading the chorizo into tiny pieces, mix it around for 4 minutes. While its cooking you have to crack open 2-3 eggs and mix it with a pinch of salt. You have to make sure the eggs don’t stick as much on the pan or its going to be hard to clean it. So now I want to learn is, what were the primary reasons why Rome crumbled? Natural disasters,…

The year is 1347, the place, Europe. Traders are a prominent source of financial and cultural distribution among the Eastern continent. Unbeknownst to the merchants that were traveling during this time, they not only spread many goods from the rural areas of Europe to its richer inner districts, but, they harbored one of the worst diseases known to mankind, the Black Plague. By 1348, the disease had spread from the Silk Roads to Constantinople, to which over the course of its life-span (slowing…

The source of Influenza comes from wild bird’s right around the 1900s and spread very quickly to other birds that died. Some of these wild birds were carriers of the Influenza virus who passed the virus through the air onto other animals such as chickens, and then passed it on to pigs who then passed it on to humans. The symptoms of the Flu are fever, coughing, sneezing, and severe pain of the body starting in the respiratory area which is highly contagious and is spread through the air from…

The years of 1918 were lively. Theatres became popular hangouts, the economy was booming from war productions, factory jobs grew exponentially, and health and sanitation education started playing important roles in people’s lives for the first time in recent history. No one could have predicted what would follow, nor how serious it became or how the society of the decade would send the nation downhill. The Spanish Influenza broke out in the United States, causing the worst epidemic the country…

We all see the current election as a man with no experience that simply complains about issues without giving a solution verses a woman who deletes all of her emails, we do nothing but attempt to say one side is better and complain that this is the worse election ever but we never take into consideration that in the past elections were just as bad if not worse. Diseases like Ebola leave people in fear even though it by no means even compares to diseases from the past simply because we have…

Smallpox and Malaria Treatment in the 1700’s Diseases are one of the few things in life that have been around for centuries. Almost all diseases started from viruses, then turned into much bigger outbreaks that could take centuries to cure. The first cases of smallpox and a few other deadly diseases occurred around 300 CE (“History of Smallpox”). Ever since then, doctors have created medicines and vaccines to prevent further outbreaks, but in the 1700’s it was much harder. During the…

The first case of avian influenza since last spring was detected in Dane County yesterday according to the assistant Wisconsin State Veterinarian, which could effect the US economy. Darlene Konkle, the assistant Wisconsin State Veterinarian confirmed that highly contagious avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, was found in a 20,000-bird flock. Bird flu primarily affects chickens and turkeys. Bird flu is a respiratory illness that can be identified by discharge from the nasal or eyes,…