Third Pandemic

In the novel Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, a serve collapse occurred within the city. This outbreak affected many individuals, and the survival rate kept decreasing; 99.9% of the population has already been killed. The culprit to the collapse was known as the Georgia flu. This flu was extremely contagious. But in the novel, Mandel encounters on an interesting concept. She wants to explain that even before the collapse, life was still difficult. One way that Mandel demonstrates…

Back in the 1850s in New York, an epidemic blazed. People were becoming sick and dying. Even babies were suffering. This was the Swill Milk Scandal, a plot to make money that killed as many as 8,000 infants in just one year. People were drinking tampered swill milk and still would have been had not regular New Yorkers raised their voices and stood up for those that were sick. The same is true in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is set in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama. A girl named…

following. The Great Plague (black death) is now among us; roaming the streets of London. We believe god is punishing us for our sins, and that were are still not worthy enough for him. It is killing our loved ones and has attack many around us, prithee be aware of your surroundings, and those around you. The Cause for the Black death? The black plague broke out in early 1330, spreading rapidly throughout Asia, North Africa and has now arrived in Europe. So Far it has killed 33% - 40% of…

to derive from a bacterium frequently found in populations of fleas that are carried around by a variety of different rodents. The death toll of this unfortunate disease would build all the way up to 20 million people, which turned out to be one third of Europe’s population. The black plague had many effects on different aspects of society such as public health, religion, discrimination, medicine, and economic and social order. These different aspects had both positive and negative…

The plague killed more than 25 million people around the world. The plague had lots of causes and effects. Most people in Europe experienced The Black Death. The plague’s cause sparked scientists all over the world. Scientists found bacteria to be one of the causes of The Black Death. The bacterium was called Yersinia pestis (Dobson 8). The bacterium circulated among rodents (Benedictow). This bacterium was once harmless, but evolved to kill thousands of people (“Researchers” O6a). Scientists…

type; it is when the disease passes from person to another through airborne droplets coughed from the lungs. It kills about 50 percent of those it infects. The Black plague has three major plague pandemics. The Justinian Plague, the Great Plague and the Modern Plague. The Justinian plague is the first pandemic that has been recorded, it was named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. The plague began in 541 A.D. and killed more than 25 million people and spread around the Mediterranean. The…

resulted in the exposure of one-third of the world’s population with an overall death estimate of 50-100 million people 1,2. In the United States, mortality rates were as high as 675,000 people representing 28% of the population2,3. The Spanish Flu affected the United States in three waves. Symptoms during the onset of Spanish Flu in March of 1918, were overall not perceived to be alarming to the American Population. Whereas during the second wave of the historic pandemic, typical flu-like…

(Lessons from the past) Influenza mortality curves by age at death are usually U-shaped, with the peaks in the very young and the very old age range and low mortality in the age groups in between. The third mortality peak among young adults( in the W-shaped curve accounted for approximately half of the total influenza deaths, and although the mortality rate was higher at all ages, the mortality peak associated with the elderly was less pronounced than…

When we hear of new pandemics or epidemics, we usually feel safe knowing that our government and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has controls and the technology to isolate, immunize, and cure many types of bacterial diseases and infections. Also, private companies invest…

process of replacing the Dark Ages with the Renaissance. Dictionary.com defines the Black Death as to being “a widespread epidemic of bubonic plague that occurred in several outbreaks between 1347 and 1400.” It is not only an epidemic but also a pandemic due to its outspread across Asia and Europe. It began in Asia traveling west to Europe killing…