Pandemic

bacteria called Yersinia Pestis, ravaged the population of Europe in the middle ages. “Localized epidemics of bubonic plague occurred with relative frequency, but only twice did the plague affect a wide enough swath of the population to be labeled a pandemic, or widespread epidemic” (The Black Death Arrives). When it did, over half the population of Europe died from exposure to the plague. Europe was densely populated and living conditions were terrible, making it easier for disease to spread…

Chapter 29 discuss the effects after the war, the influenza pandemic of 1918, Wilson's 14 points, the peace treaties, the league of Nations, self-determination and the mandate system. In today's discussion I will be talking about Wilson's 14 points, that was proposed after the war. Wilson's 14 points were 14 goals of the United States, proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in the peace negotiations after World War I. These principles were outlined in a speech in 1918 to Congress. The 14 points…

The Great Influenza The novel The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History was interesting to read from the view point of the award-winning writer John M. Barry. Barry was never any type of scientist, he is a historian who is writing on his thoughts of influenza. Scientists have improved our lives in ways some may not realize; without them society would not be able to treat the deadliest plague in history, influenza. I can imagine the criticism Barry may be getting…

With an estimated thirty-eight million men, women, and children left dead, the Black Death that swept through Europe in the mid-fourteenth century is by and large the most devastating epidemic of medieval European history. Long thought to have been brought to the European continent by flea-carrying Asian traders, the plague left a crippling trail of death and destruction in its wake. Some scholars now challenge the source of the plague, saying it could not have come from fleas or rats but rather…

The plague is probably best known in the West as the disease that caused the Black Death in Europe in the fourteenth century. Nearly two-thirds of the population of Europe was killed, leaving a marked impact on Western culture (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2014). However, plague has not been eradicated and continues to be a disease that humans contend with in the twenty-first century. Natural disasters, human conflict, and abnormally warm and dry weather conditions can all cause increases…

HIV is an example of one of the most damaging global pandemics in history. At the end of 2015 there was approximately 36.7 million people worldwide living with HIV. Of these, 1.8 million were younger than 15. It is estimated that 2.1 million only contracted the disease that year. Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been approximately 35 million people die, including 1.1 million just in 2015 alone. In 2005 almost every country had been effected by this disease. Greenland was the only…

Ziegler’s The Black Death was a human disaster of the fourteenth century. Ziegler wrote the book in 1969. He discusses how the black plague traveled and how much destruction it caused. The plague outbreak took place during the 1340’s. It became a pandemic that spread out all over England. He focused mostly on the plague in England throughout the book. He connected how the plague spread from there to other country’s villages. The book was a way for Ziegler to inform people of the mass effects…

yet another area that would be much different than it is today. Although many people took the position of being on the health board extremely reluctantly, the board members soon began to enact many widespread policies to halt the spread of the pandemic. These measures included the introduction of health passes (certificates that gave people permission to travel and were way to ensure that infected people didn’t enter into their cities), Bills of Mortality ((comprehensive forms that gave…

The Plague, commonly referred to as the Black Death, swept the French Algerian city of Oran. The novel The Plague centers its focus on a deadly epidemic of disease and the course it took throughout Oran. This disease was spread through bacteria carried by fleas that lived on rats. Due to the fleas, the rats were able to rapidly spread this malady worldwide resulting in millions of deaths globally. In the novel, various rats stumbled into the open and began to die hastily. When a strange fever…

Influenza is one of the major respiratory virus that causes nearly annual epidemics and occasional pandemics. Influenza epidemics generally occur in the winter months in the Northern hemisphere and May-September in the Southern hemisphere (Cox et al, 2004). This virus belongs to the genus Orthomyxovirus in the family of Orthomyxoviridae. Influenza A viruses are enveloped RNA virus with eight RNA segments that encodes for upto 11 viral genes ( Lamb &Krug ,2001, Fields virology, 4th edt. ).The…