Third Pandemic

The Black Plague can be described as one of the worst disasters to ever hit mankind, claiming the lives of more than 25 million people in Europe during the 14th century (Benedictow 2005). It took only four short years for the Black Death to inflict its wrath from Asia to almost all of Europe because of the availability of commerce routes (McMullin 2003). The plague not only claimed the lives of so many, but it depressed the economy (Benedictow 2005). Massive labor shortages due to high rates…

The Black Death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. Between the years of 1346 and 1353, the plague killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The Black death had originated in the plains of Central Asia, it quickly travelled along the Silk Road, until it reached Crimea in 1343. It was then spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe being carried by fleas living on black rats. Symptoms of the black death included victims having fevers, abdominal pain, feeling…

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 influenza pandemic of 1918 was a devastating period in both New Zealand and world history. Cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history and responsible for more deaths than World War I, this influenza pandemic resulted in anywhere from 20 to 40 million deaths worldwide (Billings 1997:). The effect it had on New Zealand history was catastrophic, killing nearly 8,500 (Rice). Perhaps the most notable discrepancy in effect that the pandemic had on New Zealand population was…

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 virus evolves into a “super virus” capable of causing significant pandemics (Webster, 2014). The influenza A virus is the envelope virus responsible for infecting hundreds of thousands of humans each year, however strains of influenza A virus have avian lineage. An intermediate host, such as swine, is usually used by the avian virus to evolve with a mammalian virus through genetic reassortment…